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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicebigobject.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablemachbase.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.bigobject.iocloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.BigObject, Inc.GoogleMachbase
Initial release20162015201520132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseV8.0, August 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-row operationsnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceBigObjectGoogle Cloud BigtableMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxPostgres-XL
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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