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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TypeDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.An embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcassandra.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmltypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheretypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSAP infoformerly SybaseVaticle
Initial release20162013200819922016
Current release4.1.3, July 202317, July 20152.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceBoltDBCassandraSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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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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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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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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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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 metricsCassandra 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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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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