DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. OpenSearch vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. OpenSearch vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

TiDB 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 model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.monetdb.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Chris Davis

MonetDB BV

Amazon Web Services

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2006

2004

2021

2016

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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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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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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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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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he 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 metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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