DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2016

1999

2013

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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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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