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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Fauna vs. Snowflake

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicefauna.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.fauna.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeAlibabaCloud Inc.Fauna, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2012201620142014
Current release7.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCScala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor3 replicasMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/ReduceES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAlibaba Cloud user access controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBSnowflake
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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