DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Informix vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Informix vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.ibm.com/products/informix

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

1984

2013

2014

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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, C++ and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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