DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

clickhouse.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

DGraph Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2016

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source 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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key 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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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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