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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Kingbase vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Kingbase vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 FlinkAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceiotdb.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software FoundationBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2016201819992014
Current release1.1.0, April 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
Native API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectorIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache IoTDBKingbaseQuestDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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