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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. CrateDB vs. NSDb

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDistributed Database based on LuceneScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicealtibase.comcratedb.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscratedb.com/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AltibaseCrate
Initial release2016199920132017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageC++JavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingANSI SQL-92yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions (Javascript)no
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyesConfigurable replication on table/partition-level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAltibaseCrateDBNSDb
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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