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

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

AlibabaCloud Inc.

CCRi and others

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

2010

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Erlang

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL for querying

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

3 replicas

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

More information provided by the system vendor

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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