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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BigObject vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BigObject vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  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 queriesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Document store
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
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicebigobject.ioswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.compingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.bigobject.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.BigObject, Inc.Simer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20162015201820182016
Current release11.0.0, January 20238.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaProlog, RustGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJava
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasnonenoneJournaling StreamsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlnonoRole-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceBigObjectSwayDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTiDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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