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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GeoSpock vs. Kdb vs. Splunk vs. TiDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHigh performance Time Series DBMSAnalytics Platform for Big DataTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicegeospock.comkx.comwww.splunk.compingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscode.kx.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.GeoSpockKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSplunk Inc.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320032016
Current release2.0, September 20193.6, May 20188.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptqGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (q)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP RESTGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablerights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGeoSpockKdbSplunkTiDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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