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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Widely used open source RDBMS info

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS info

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	4.16
Rank	#69	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	483.91
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas_natural/adabas/default.html

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals

Developer

Software AG

PostgreSQL Global Development Group info

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

1971

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

12.0, October 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API info

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

native C library
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java info

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions info

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Master-slave replication info

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

User concepts info

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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