DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Axibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Axibase vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Axibase Corporation

Elastic

FatCloud

SAP

Initial release

2016

2013

2010

2012

2010

Current release

15585

8.6, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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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