DBMS > Adabas vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Software AG

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

quasardb

SAP, Sybase

SAP

Initial release

1971

2013

2009

1987

2010

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Java, SQL

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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