DBMS > Adabas vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.softwareag.com/en_corporate/platform/adabas-natural.html

www.ittia.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Software AG

ITTIA L.L.C.

Microsoft

Percona

Transwarp

Initial release

1971

2007

1989

2008

Current release

8.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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