DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EXASOL vs. FoundationDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EXASOL vs. FoundationDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

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.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

Relational 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	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.exasol.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.hawkular.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.exasol.com/resources

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Exasol

FoundationDB

Community supported by Red Hat

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2013

2014

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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