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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BoltDB vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE 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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

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

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.jaguardb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Software AG

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1971

2013

2015

1991

2003

Current release

3.3 July 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

Multi-source replication

yes

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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