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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PieCloudDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.openpie.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014OpenPieTimescale
Initial release201620122017
Current release2.1, January 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceFirebase Realtime DatabasePieCloudDBTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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