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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.geomesa.orghive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaCloud Inc.CCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20142016201420122010
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone3 replicasdepending on storage layerselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesnodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAlibaba Cloud user access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per database
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceGeoMesaHiveIBM Cloudant
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-Finance:he 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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