DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.graphengine.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2010

2016

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

hosted

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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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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