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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Machbase Neo vs. PieCloudDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

machbase.com

www.openpie.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Software AG

Machbase

OpenPie

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

2013

1987

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

2.1, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

yes

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

yes

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.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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