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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicecloud.google.com/­bigqueryazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.GoogleMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20162010201620142019
Current release3.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyesyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptTransact SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)yesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGoogle BigQueryMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSnowflakeTDengine
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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