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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.45
Rank#267  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score78.40
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.MicrosoftIBMMicrosoft
Initial release2016201020172010
Current release2.0V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CC and C++C++
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesTransact SQL
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasActive-active shard replicationyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityIBM Db2 Event StoreMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure
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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