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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. OpenEdge vs. Sadas Engine

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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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Software AG

Progress Software Corporation

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1971

1984

2006

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
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

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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