DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

phoenix.apache.org

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

phoenix.apache.org

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

2000

1983

2013

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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Specific characteristics

A 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 models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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