DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP HANA vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP HANA vs. TDengine

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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.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Exasol

Google

SAP

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2000

2015

2010

2019

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customers

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

TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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