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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Bangdb vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 graphEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicebangdb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.bangdb.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Sachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162012201420172001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.12, February 20173.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Using read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlyes (enterprise version only)noyesno
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceBangdbLovefieldObjectBoxSphinx
Specific characteristicsA 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 modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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