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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FoundationDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Postgres-XL

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 accessOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.nebula-graph.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AlibabaFoundationDBVesoft Inc.
Initial release20162016201320192014 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 Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
ADO.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++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAlibaba Cloud Table StoreFoundationDBNebulaGraphPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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