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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. SQLite vs. Tkrzw

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

couchdb.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.sqlite.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Circonus LLC.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2016

2005

2017

2000

2020

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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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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