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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EXASOL vs. Infobright vs. Sphinx vs. TigerGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.exasol.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbsphinxsearch.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.exasol.com/­resourcessphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.ExasolIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162000200520012017
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnoRole-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceEXASOLInfobrightSphinxTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsA 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 modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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