DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. EventStoreDB vs. Oracle vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. EventStoreDB vs. Oracle 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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Widely used RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

altibase.com

www.eventstore.com

www.oracle.com/database

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

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

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

developers.eventstore.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Altibase

Event Store Limited

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2016

1999

2012

1980

1998

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

21.2, February 2021

23c, September 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is 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
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

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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