DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. ClickHouse vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. ClickHouse vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

clickhouse.com

www.graphengine.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

clickhouse.com/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

2014

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

.NET

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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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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