DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Axibase vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake vs. TimesTen

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

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Name

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 search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.snowflake.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Axibase Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2013

2021

2014

1998

Current release

15585

2.5.0, January 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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