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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.61
Rank	#82	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	26.64
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#177	Overall
	#83	Relational DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1971

2016

1984

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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)

yes

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