DBMS > Adabas vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sqream.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Software AG

SAP

formerly Sybase

SQream Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

1971

2010

1992

2017

2016

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions in Python

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

yes

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

Eventual Consistency
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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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