DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Drizzle vs. Hypertable vs. MariaDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Drizzle vs. Hypertable vs. MariaDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and 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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hypertable Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2008

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

0.9.8.11, March 2016

11.3.2, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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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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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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