DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

bangdb.com

cassandra.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.bangdb.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

SAP

formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

1992

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.1.3, July 2023

17, July 2015

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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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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Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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