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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Couchbase vs. GridGain vs. SwayDB

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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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	16.74
Rank	#33	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.couchbase.com

www.gridgain.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.couchbase.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Couchbase, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2011

2007

2018

Current release

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

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial, open source

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of 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.

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.

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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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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