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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Linter vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

RDBMS for high security requirements

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.76
Rank	#90	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	3.46
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

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

linter.ru

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Software AG

relex.ru

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1971

1990

1984

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

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

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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