DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Atos Convergence Creators

SiteWhere

Teradata

Initial release

1984

2016

2010

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

predefined scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

LDAP

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

3 replicas

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Alibaba Cloud user access control

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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