DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Elasticsearch vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Elasticsearch vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Well established RDBMS

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/hana

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Elastic

Actian Corporation

SAP

Tencent

Initial release

2016

2010

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

2013

Current release

8.6, January 2023

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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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