DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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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.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Software AG

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon Web Services

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1971

2016

2021

2015

2009

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL for querying

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

3 replicas

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

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

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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