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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. jBASE vs. QuestDB

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

questdb.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

questdb.io/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2016

2012

1991

2014

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

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

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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