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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. mSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicegeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storehughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleIBMHughes Technologies
Initial release20162002201720171994
Current release1.1, February 20172.04.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Active-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACID infoStrict serializable isolationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGeodeGoogle Cloud SpannerIBM Db2 Event StoremSQL infoMini SQL
Specific characteristicsA 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-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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