DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. TerarkDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big DataA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AlibabaSAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2016199220032016
Current release17, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAlibaba Cloud PolarDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSplunkTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
» more
PolarDB, previously ApsaraDB for PolarDB, is a cloud-native relational database designed...
» more
Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
» more
Webinar: Top Scientists Live: Tech Secrets to Double 11's Success Revealed. White...
» more
Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
» more
Creating a Robust Cloud-Based Database for Fintech, E-Commerce and Gaming. Learn...
» more
Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
» more
Specification and pricing. You can use either of the following billing methods to...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAlibaba Cloud PolarDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSplunkTerarkDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Enterprise Search Engines almost double their popularity in the last 12 months
2 July 2014, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

2 Methods for Installing Serverless Kubernetes in Alibaba Cloud
29 March 2022, hackernoon.com

Alibaba Cloud Further Facilitates Digital Transformation Acceleration across Asia in the Year of the Pandemic
27 January 2021, PR Newswire

Alibaba Cloud vs AWS | Cloud Provider Comparison | ITBE
6 October 2021, IT Business Edge

How Data Analytics Capabilities of Alibaba Group Evolve Its Ecosystem to the Cloud
20 February 2021, DataDrivenInvestor

Alibaba Cloud launches China Gateway program in Singapore
30 May 2019, China Daily

provided by Google News

Alibaba Cloud launches PolarDB database update - Chinadaily.com.cn
19 January 2024, China Daily

Alibaba Cloud upgrades AnalyticDB with vector database engine
25 July 2023, CloudTech News

Alibaba Rolls Own Distributed File System for Cloud Database Performance
21 August 2018, The Next Platform

Chinese government blocks use of Intel, AMD chips in hardware
25 March 2024, TechRadar

Alibaba Cloud Further Facilitates Digital Transformation Acceleration across Asia in the Year of the Pandemic
27 January 2021, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

SAP vulnerabilities Let Attacker Inject OS Commands—Patch Now!
11 July 2023, CybersecurityNews

SAP Again Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems
16 December 2021, SAP News

SAP Products & Services Data Portfolio
2 July 2021, Datamation

SAP launches HANA cloud platform, partners with Siemens, Intel
6 May 2015, Channel Daily News

provided by Google News

A Chinese company is making the cloud 200x faster · TechNode
3 July 2017, TechNode

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

Build AI apps with Vectors on SQL and JSON with milliseconds response times.
Try it today.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here