DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebird vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebird vs. MySQL

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.mcobject.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Atos Convergence Creators

McObject

Firebird Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2001

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1995

Current release

1703

8.2, 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

LDAP

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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