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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineSpatial DBMSDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
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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
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaCloud Inc.CCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBM
Initial release20142016201420102017
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
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 layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesyesno
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-storagenonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnodepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAlibaba Cloud user access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceGeoMesaIBM CloudantIBM Db2 Event Store
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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