DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

spotify.github.io/heroic

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Spotify

Sybase, SAP

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

1993

2010

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

A 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 models

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