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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Axibase vs. Elasticsearch

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene info

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	4.54
Rank	#67	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#254	Overall
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Score	148.62
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Website

www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas_natural/adabas/default.html

axibase.com/products/axibase-time-series-database

www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch

Technical documentation

github.com/axibase/atsd

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Developer

Software AG

Axibase Corporation

Elastic

Initial release

1971

2013

2010

Current release

15585

7.0.0, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial info

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud: Try out the official hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana offering available on AWS and GCP that's powered by the creators of Elasticsearch.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free info

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Community Contributed Clients

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Master-slave replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency info

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

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts info

Access control

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Market metrics

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