DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. GreptimeDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. GreptimeDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Well established RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

altibase.com

greptime.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

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

docs.greptime.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Altibase

Greptime Inc.

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

1999

2022

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1989

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.2, May 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Python

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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