DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

help.sap.com/hana

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Google

SAP

Tencent

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2016

2017

2010

2013

2005

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

SQLScript, R

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Using Cloud Dataflow

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Specific characteristics

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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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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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