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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GridGain vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.gridgain.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162007200120112018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoyes
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes (replicated cache)nonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnonoRole-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGridGainSphinxSTSdbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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