DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Blazegraph vs. Couchbase vs. Linter vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Blazegraph vs. Couchbase vs. Linter vs. Milvus

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

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

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

RDBMS for high security requirements

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.couchbase.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Blazegraph

Couchbase, Inc.

relex.ru

Initial release

2016

2006

2011

1990

2019

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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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Key customers

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

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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