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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Cambridge SemanticsMicrosoftSpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release20162018201020142016
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux.NEThosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyesnoTransact SQL
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectorKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAnzoGraph DBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHeroicMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsA 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-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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