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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfacePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsMicrosofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantboilerbay.comwww.jaguardb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Boiler Bay Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20162010200220151989
Current release4.03.3 July 2023SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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 indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenorights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceIBM CloudantInfinityDBJaguarDBMicrosoft SQL Server
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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