DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EXASOL vs. FeatureBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EXASOL vs. FeatureBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.exasol.com

www.featurebase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.featurebase.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Exasol

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2016

2000

2017

1992

2010

Current release

2022, May 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL queries

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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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