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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Cassandra vs. Galaxybase vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Cassandra vs. Galaxybase vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 accessScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
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
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicecassandra.apache.orggalaxybase.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司SiteWhere
Initial release2016200820172010
Current release4.1.3, July 2023Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemapredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined procedures and functions
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceCassandraGalaxybaseSiteWhere
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 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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