DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. CrateDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. CrateDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Well established RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

cratedb.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

cratedb.com/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

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

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Crate

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Tencent

Initial release

2016

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1989

2013

Current release

11.2, May 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

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

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

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

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Ingres Replicator

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metrics

The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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See CrateDB pricing >
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