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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Axibase 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.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Axibase Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2013

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

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

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

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Alibaba Cloud user access control

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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