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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  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 simplicityAnalytics Platform for Big DataTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.splunk.compingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.GoogleCirconus LLC.Splunk Inc.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20162015201720032016
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20188.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Go, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP APIHTTP RESTGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
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
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luayesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
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 awareMulti-source replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnoyesyes infowith TiSpark Connector
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 nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGoogle Cloud BigtableIRONdbSplunkTiDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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