ADABAS DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

ADABAS: MISSION CRITICAL & MADE FOR YOUR DIGITAL FUTURE
Built for high-volume transaction processing, Adabas provides ultra-high-performance and reliable data processing for enterprise business transactions. In fact, 98% of customers run Adabas & Natural for mission- and business-critical applications.
We’re committed to ensuring Adabas & Natural evolve and adapt to meet new industry standards, business practices and technology so your systems can continue to run on Adabas & Natural—forever.
Take a look at our latest add-on products and explore your digital future with Adabas.
See all Adabas & Natural productsSAVE ON MAINFRAME COSTS WITH ADABAS FOR zIIP™
To help you address the increasing demand to serve online, mobile and cloud applications as well as the Internet of Things, Adabas for zIIP can offload database workload from the General Purpose Processor (GPP) to a low-cost alternative—IBM® zIIP™.
Since no changes to your application are required, this low-risk solution is easy to deploy. This low-cost alternative to increasing capacity on existing GPPs allows you to continue using your existing hardware, save on mainframe costs and lower your TCO.
More in the fact sheetNEED REAL-TIME DATA? ADD EVENT REPLICATOR FOR ADABAS
You’ve relied on Adabas for the fastest, most dependable transactional database management. By adding Event Replicator for Adabas, you can make sure Adabas has real-time data. This add-on product proactively pushes changed data in real time to applications, Adabas, third-party databases, data warehouses, big data stores or messaging systems.
Add Event Replicator to:
- Reduce operational costs
- Increase performance
- Ensure business continuity and high availability
- Improve productivity, business responsiveness and decision making
Available for mainframe and LUW platforms.
Read more about this add-onUNLOCK ACCESS TO DATA WITH ADABAS SQL GATEWAY
Another way to enhance Adabas is by adding Adabas SQL Gateway. This add-on provides real-time access to Adabas data by creating a virtual data services layer that abstracts data from various Adabas data sources into an SQL layer that is commonly understood and easily accessible.
Add Adabas SQL Gateway to:
- Empower people who don’t know Adabas to directly access data when needed
- Enable direct access to real-time data through SQL-based business intelligence tools, KPI and dashboard tools
- Increase productivity
- Lower operational costs
Available for mainframe and LUW platforms.
Read the fact sheetTAKE CONTROL WITH EVENT ANALYTICS FOR ADABAS
In today’s digital world, you need to know what’s going on with your data. With Event Analytics for Adabas, another add-on product, you can monitor event streams, detect and analyze event patterns. Take action immediately to drive down costs, improve performance, prevent fraud and provide an audit trail.
Use this add-on to:
- Provide a secure environment for protecting sensitive data
- Optimize operations
- Mitigate risk with proactive alerts of unusual events
- Visualize data in real time with dashboards

WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
ADABAS & NATURAL: KEYS TO CONFIDENCE
“For 25 years, Virginia DMV has easily updated the same database and application system to meet changing regulations. Today, the system is modern and integrated with a multitude of systems and external users. Through it all, Adabas & Natural are always reliable, fast and secure.”
Pam Schwartz | Database Administrator, State of Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles
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FACT SHEET:
ADABAS PRODUCTS FOR
THE MAINFRAME
Adabas for Mainframe is the fastest, most dependable transactional database management system in the world. With valuable add-on tools, Adabas is the data management system of choice for enterprises with high-end service level transaction requirements seeking a low total cost of ownership.
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ADABAS REVIEW
PERFORMANCE MONITOR
Learn how Adabas Review goes beyond performance optimization to deliver savings in support costs, increase revenue with charge backs and delay machine upgrades.
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WHITE PAPER:
HOW TO SECURE
ADABAS & NATURAL
Learn what best practices and tools are available to protect your Adabas-Natural and EntireX environments from security risks for data at rest, data in flight and the application lifecycle.
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ADABAS ON LUW
As you transition to new platforms seeking lower total cost of ownership, take your Adabas system with you. Continue to deliver extremely high transaction speeds with a fraction of the staff and system resources needed for comparable database management systems with Adabas for Linux®, UNIX® and Windows®.
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