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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NCache vs. NebulaGraph vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NCache vs. NebulaGraph vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.hawkular.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachegithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
www.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.nebula-graph.iodocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Community supported by Red HatAlachisoftVesoft Inc.Timescale
Initial release20162014200520192017
Current release5.3.3, April 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP RESTIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoNotificationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandrayesShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelCausal Clustering using Raft protocolSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceHawkular MetricsNCacheNebulaGraphTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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