DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. 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 and scalable native Graph DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

dgraph.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

dgraph.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2016

1995

Current release

11.2, May 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
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.

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Synchronous replication via Raft

Ingres Replicator

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or 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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