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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.gbase.cnwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release201620042013
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyessimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAlibaba Cloud PolarDBGBaseInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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PolarDB, previously ApsaraDB for PolarDB, is a cloud-native relational database designed...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Webinar: Top Scientists Live: Tech Secrets to Double 11's Success Revealed. White...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Creating a Robust Cloud-Based Database for Fintech, E-Commerce and Gaming. Learn...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Specification and pricing. You can use either of the following billing methods to...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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