DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle

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Name

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hsqldb.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

InterSystems

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2012

2001

2018

1980

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2023.3, June 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, SQL

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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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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