DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Cassandra vs. CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Cassandra vs. CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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Name

Description

A 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

Optimized for write access

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Primary database model

Search engine

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

cassandra.apache.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Cockroach Labs

Asthon Tate

Google

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

1979

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

23.1.1, May 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

dBase proprietary IDE

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Atomic single-row operations

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.

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Specific characteristics

A 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 metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing models

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