DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. ArangoDB vs. MySQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. ArangoDB vs. MySQL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

arangodb.com

www.mysql.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.arangodb.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Software AG

AlibabaCloud Inc.

ArangoDB Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1971

2016

2012

1995

2011

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

HTTP REST

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

since version 2.0

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

3 replicas

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

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

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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