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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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 casesCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#268  Overall
#19  Search engines
Score0.64
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#320  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.MicrosoftIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2016201020172014
Current release2.0
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++
Server operating systemshosted.NETLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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 indexesyesno
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
CLI Client
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasActive-active shard replicationyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityIBM Db2 Event StoreSnowflake
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-Finance:he 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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