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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Quasardb vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Quasardb vs. TiDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  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.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicedruid.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerquasar.aipingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsGooglequasardbPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20162012201720092016
Current release30.0.0, June 20243.14.1, January 20248.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL for queryingyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languageyes
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
HTTP APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
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.Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowwith Hadoop integrationyes infowith TiSpark Connector
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 integritynoyes infofull support since version 6.6
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 persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient modeno
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)Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache DruidGoogle Cloud SpannerQuasardbTiDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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