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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. H2 vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. H2 vs. Prometheus

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA 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. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.h2database.comprometheus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaCloud Inc.AmazonThomas Mueller
Initial release20142016200720052015
Current release2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesNumeric data only
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone3 replicasyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceAmazon SimpleDBH2Prometheus
Specific characteristicsA 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-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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