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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Apache Pinot vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

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

pinot.apache.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1971

2015

2003

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
Python

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#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

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