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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. SAP HANA vs. Tibero 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

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

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

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

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

Developer

Software AG

SAP

TmaxSoft

Rocket Software

Initial release

1971

2010

2003

1985

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Java API

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

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

SQLScript, R

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

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

planned for next version

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 (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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