Getting Started With Adabas & Natural Part 1

Setting up the Adabas and Natural Community Edition packages

Adabas is a non-relational database package that was developed by Software AG initially to run on IBM mainframes in 1971 (refer: Wikipedia 2005). Recently Software AG claimed that Adabas and, its associated programming language, Natural, can run virtually anywhere including the cloud (refer: Software AG 2020). They even announced that Adabas will reach far beyond the year 2050 (refer: Software AG 2022). This series of blogs is a personal exploration on the Adabas and Natural Community Editions aiming to experience and appreciate the softwares.

Adabas=Database

Natural=Programming Language

Adabas and Natural Community Editions are available as Docker images (read here for those who are new to Docker). The community edition consists of three software bundles which must be installed altogether. The steps are as follows. Read the instructions on the respective web sites in order to set them up successfully.

(1) Pull and Run Adabas CE (refer https://hub.docker.com/r/softwareag/adabas-ce version 7.0.1),

(2) Pull and Run Natural CE (refer https://hub.docker.com/r/softwareag/natural-ce version 9.1.4),