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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. openGemini vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.postgres-xl.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Software AG

Huawei and openGemini community

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1971

2022

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1987

Current release

1.1, July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

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

HTTP REST

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

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

MVCC

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)

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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