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DBMS > Adabas vs. MonetDB vs. searchxml vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. MonetDB vs. searchxml vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAnalytics Platform for Big DataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.monetdb.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.splunk.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperSoftware AGMonetDB BVinformationpartners gmbhSplunk Inc.
Initial release19712004201520032009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++Java
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesNaturalC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalyes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoon the application serveryesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding via remote tablesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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