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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.58
Rank	#91	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.softwareag.com/en_corporate/platform/adabas-natural.html

opentsdb.net

siridb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.siridb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Cesbit

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

1971

2011

2017

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

Numeric data

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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