DBMS > Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. searchxml vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. searchxml vs. Splunk 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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Analytics Platform for Big Data

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Graph DBMS

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

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

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.splunk.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

informationpartners gmbh

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1971

2012

2015

2003

2009

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

yes

on the application server

yes

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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