DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebirdsql.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Firebird Foundation

InterSystems

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1997

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

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 and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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 authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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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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