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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. etcd vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. etcd vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.A distributed reliable key-value storeA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/prometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Circonus LLC.
Initial release201620172015
Current release3.4, August 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data only
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyes, watching key changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlnonono
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceetcdIRONdbPrometheus
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-Financeļ¼šhe 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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