DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. FoundationDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. FoundationDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

apple.github.io/foundationdb

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

FoundationDB

SAP

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

2013

2010

2014

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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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