DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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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.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.exasol.com

manticoresearch.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.exasol.com/resources

manual.manticoresearch.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Exasol

Manticore Software

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2017

2010

2014

Current release

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

predefined scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

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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