DBMS > Adabas vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

1971

1984

2010

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Natural

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and groups

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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