DBMS > 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Elasticsearch vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Elasticsearch vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

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

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bitnine.net/documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Bitnine Global Inc.

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Elastic

SAP

Initial release

1984

2016

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1, December 2018

8.6, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

3 replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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