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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blueflood vs. FoundationDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.45
Rank#267  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeblueflood.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AlibabaRackspaceFoundationDB
Initial release20162016201320132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functions
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Linearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID infoMVCC
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAlibaba Cloud Table StoreBluefloodFoundationDBPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsA 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 modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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