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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicegreptime.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.greptime.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Greptime Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2016202220162005
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageRustC++C
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlSimple rights management via user accountsyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGreptimeDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehousePostGIS
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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