DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Galaxybase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Galaxybase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

galaxybase.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2017

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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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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