DBMS > Adabas vs. Oracle vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Oracle vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Widely used RDBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database

surrealdb.com

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

surrealdb.com/docs

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Software AG

Oracle

SurrealDB Ltd

Transaction Software GmbH

Rocket Software

Initial release

1971

1980

2022

1987

1985

Current release

23c, September 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

with proprietary extensions

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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