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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Couchbase vs. Derby vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.couchbase.com

db.apache.org/derby

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.couchbase.com

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.lmdb.tech/doc

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Couchbase, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Symas

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2011

1997

2011

1989

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

0.9.32, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

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

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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