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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. IBM Db2 vs. SQLite vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.sqlite.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

IBM

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

2000

2019

Current release

12.1, October 2016

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

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

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

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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