DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A 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 engine

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.graphengine.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Microsoft

IBM

Alachisoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

2005

2014

Current release

2.0

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Notifications

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Active-active shard replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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