DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. LevelDB vs. MariaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. LevelDB vs. MariaDB

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Name

IRONdb 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.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	93.81
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/google/leveldb

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Google

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

2011

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.23, February 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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