DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. Dgraph vs. MySQL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. Dgraph vs. MySQL vs. TimesTen

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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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

altibase.com

dgraph.io

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

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

dgraph.io/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Altibase

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

1999

2016

1995

1998

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Planned for future releases

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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