DBMS > Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Oracle vs. Riak TS vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Oracle vs. Riak TS vs. Tarantool

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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.

Widely used RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#139	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.oracle.com/database

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Software AG

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1971

2016

1980

2015

2008

Current release

23c, September 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes, limited

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Erlang

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

3 replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

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

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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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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