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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.44
Rank#257  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicedruid.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousequasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleIBMquasardb
Initial release20162012201720142009
Current release30.0.0, June 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL for queryingyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache DruidGoogle Cloud SpannerIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBQuasardb
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-Finance:he 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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