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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.14
Rank	#83	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#369	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#274	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

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

quasardb.net

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

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

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

Developer

Software AG

quasardb

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1971

2009

1987

Current release

3.13.3, April 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

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

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Natural

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

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

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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