database A
relational database system by
Software AG. While it was initially designed for large
IBM mainframe systems (e.g. S/370 in the late 1970s), it has been ported to numerous other
platforms over the last few years such as several flavors of
Unix including
AIX.
ADABAS stores its data in tables (and is thus "relational") but also uses some non-relational techniques, such as multiple values and periodic groups.
(1995-10-30)