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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. H2GIS vs. NSDb vs. searchxml

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.h2gis.org

nsdb.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

AlibabaCloud Inc.

CNRS

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1971

2016

2013

2017

2015

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Natural

Java

Java
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

based on H2

yes

on the application server

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

3 replicas

yes

based on H2

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

based on H2

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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