DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

A 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 access

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

RDBMS for high security requirements

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Search engine

Wide column store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

linter.ru

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Alibaba

IBM

relex.ru

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2017

1990

2010

Current release

2.0

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

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++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL for querying

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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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