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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
nsdb.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.datomic.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.CognitectBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162012201820172001
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.93.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Groovy
Java
Python
Java
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsno
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceDatomicHugeGraphNSDbSphinx
Specific characteristicsA 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 modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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