DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A 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 durability

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.kinetica.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Cognitect

InterSystems

Kinetica

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

1997

2012

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.1, August 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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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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