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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. eXtremeDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.mcobject.com

www.gigaspaces.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

McObject

Gigaspaces Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2016

2001

2000

2010

Current release

8.2, 2021

15.5, September 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

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 and C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

support of XML interfaces available

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

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

Role-based access control

yes

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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