DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Couchbase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Couchbase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.couchbase.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.couchbase.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Couchbase, Inc.

Oracle

Percona

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2011

2007

2015

2001

Current release

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

14.1, August 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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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

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

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

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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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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