DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

www.timescale.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.timescale.com

typedb.com/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Timescale

Vaticle

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

2016

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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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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Licensing and pricing models

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