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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache IoTDB vs. ArangoDB vs. NuoDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

iotdb.apache.org

arangodb.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.arangodb.com

doc.nuodb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

ArangoDB Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2018

2012

2013

2000

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.11.5, November 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Native API

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

since version 2.0

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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