ADABAS D

ADABAS D Enterprise Edition is a fully-functional RDBMS from Software AG for the platforms HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Digital UNIX, SNI SINIX, Intel Unix 5.4, Windows NT (Intel), Windows 95 and OS/2. A personal version of ADABAS D was distributed with some versions of StarOffice and was until recently available as a free download from the company but as the company is slowly migrating ADABAS D to normal ADABAS.

ADABAS D does not share a codebase with the full ADABAS product. ADABAS was created when Software AG took over the Siemens owned SQL-Datenbanksysteme GmbH and converted their SQL offering to ADABAS D as a low cost alternative to the full product, but they were being developed separately. ADABAS D survives as MAX DB, a product licensed by SAP as a lower cost alternative to Oracle Database and SQL Server that still offered transactional capabilities, most of the development work on MAX DB is now in the hands of SAP.

SQL Modes

 * ADABAS D
 * ANSI
 * Oracle
 * DB2

Versions

 * Nixdorf Computer AG
 * VDN (Verteilte Datenbank­systeme Nixdorf)
 * RDS (Relationales Datenbank­system)
 * DDB/4 (Distributed Database 4th Generation)


 * Siemens Nixdorf Informations­systeme AG - SQL Datenbank­systeme GmbH
 * DDB/4


 * Software AG
 * Entire SQL-DB-Server 2.4.8
 * 1996: 6.1.1.2


 * SAP AG
 * 1997: SAP DB
 * MaxDB

Links

 * http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas_natural/adabas/overview/default.asp
 * Open MAX DB