Adabas D

Adabas D (former name Entire SQL DB server ) is a relational database management system of the Darmstadt company Software AG. It is based on the acquired by Software AG of Nixdorf program DDB4. This again goes back to a research project at the Technical University of Berlin from 1977.

In 1997, the software company SAP also acquired rights to this technology and developed it in the episode under the name SAP DB, then MaxDB and SAP MaxDB finally separated further.

Since 1971, the Software AG distributes the database system Adabas, which, although it also offers a SQL interface, but until the name has nothing to do with Adabas D.

Adabas D is on different computer platforms or types of processors (x86, Alpha, Z-Series, Sparc ) and under different operating systems (Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP- UX, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux) can be used. It supports various SQL dialects (ANSI, Oracle and Native ). There are interfaces to C, C , and COBOL.

Since version 14 of ADABAS D Unicode support is offered within this DBMS system for the first time.

Different companies have licensed Adabas D and deliver or delivered it partly as part of their software products from.