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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.GoogleCirconus LLC.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2016201520172011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luano
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGoogle Cloud BigtableIRONdbOpenTSDB
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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