DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GreptimeDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GreptimeDB 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.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

greptime.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.greptime.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Greptime Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2022

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

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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- 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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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he 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 metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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