DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Alibaba

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2008

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes, details here

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

close to SQL 92

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

3 replicas

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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