ADABAS

ADABAS (an acronym for Adaptable DAta BAse System) is Software AG’s primary database management system.

Initially released in 1971 on IBM mainframe systems using DOS/360, OS/MFT or OS/MVT, ADABAS, is currently available on a range of enterprise systems including, BS2000, zVSE, zOS, Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows servers. Historically, ADABAS is used in conjunction with Software AG's programming language NATURAL, so that many applications that use ADABAS as a database on the back-end are developed with Natural.

ADABAS is an inverted list data base, with the following characteristics or terminology:

ADABAS is typically used in applications that require high volumes of data processing or in high transaction online analytical processing environments.

ADABAS access is normally via direct calls, which Natural and/or SQL Solutions perform under the covers. Much the same as Oracle Databases do.

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