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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. Linter

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataRDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelSearch engineEvent StoreRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.orggriddb.netlinter.ru
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Event Store LimitedFirebird FoundationToshiba Corporationrelex.ru
Initial release201620122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20131990
Current release21.2, February 20215.0.0, January 20245.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectornoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at container levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceEventStoreDBFirebirdGridDBLinter
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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