DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. etcd vs. IBM Db2 vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. etcd vs. IBM Db2 vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

A distributed reliable key-value store

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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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Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	7.64
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	127.49
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

AlibabaCloud Inc.

IBM

Oracle

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

1980

Current release

3.4, August 2019

12.1, October 2016

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

3 replicas

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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