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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Cassandra vs. BigchainDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Cassandra vs. BigchainDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.44
Rank#257  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score98.94
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicecassandra.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2016200820162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2017
Current release5.0-rc1, July 202410 R1, October 20186.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonCC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemas
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factorreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access types
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache CassandraBigchainDBPostgres-XLRDFox
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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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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Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsApache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Apache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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