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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. ArangoDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle

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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.

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

arangodb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.arangodb.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

AlibabaCloud Inc.

ArangoDB Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

2015

1980

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

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

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

3 replicas

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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