DBMS > Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Graph Engine vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

High performance Time Series DBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

www.graphengine.io

kx.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

code.kx.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Software AG

Microsoft

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1971

2010

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2016

2021

Current release

3.6, May 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

.NET

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Natural

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in Natural

yes

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

upon request
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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