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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. CrateDB vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. RRDtool

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Distributed Database based on LucenemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicecratedb.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscratedb.com/­docsnsdb.io/­Architectureoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.CrateHughes TechnologiesTobias Oetiker
Initial release20162013199420171999
Current release4.4, October 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaCJava, ScalaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)nonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
noneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlrights management via user accountsnono
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceCrateDBmSQL infoMini SQLNSDbRRDtool
Specific characteristicsA 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 metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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