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DBMS > Adabas vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tibero

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.86
Rank#89  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#381  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#19  Vector DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#260  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.87
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#150  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.jaguardb.comwww.kinetica.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.kinetica.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheretechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperSoftware AGDataJaguar, Inc.KineticaSAP infoformerly SybaseTmaxSoft
Initial release19712015201219922003
Current release3.3 July 20237.1, August 202117, July 20157, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, C++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnouser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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