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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Axibase vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake vs. TimesTen

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 visualizationDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.snowflake.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Axibase CorporationSnowflake Computing Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162013201320141998
Current release155852.7.6, April 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlsimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAxibaseInfluxDBSnowflakeTimesTen
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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