DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

clickhouse.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

clickhouse.com/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2014

2016

2007

2016

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL for querying

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

key based and custom

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

3 replicas

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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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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