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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Impala vs. EDB Postgres vs. IBM Db2

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Analytic DBMS for HadoopThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceimpala.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaEnterpriseDBIBM
Initial release2016201320051983 infohost version
Current release4.1.0, June 202214, December 202112.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache ImpalaEDB PostgresIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2
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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