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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. MongoDB vs. Oracle vs. SiteWhere

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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.

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Widely used RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	423.96
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.mongodb.com

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/database

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

AlibabaCloud Inc.

MongoDB, Inc

Oracle

SiteWhere

Initial release

2014

2016

2009

1980

2010

Current release

6.0.7, June 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

3 replicas

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

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

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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MongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Built around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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