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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Interbase vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasequestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasequestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.EmbarcaderoQuestDB Technology IncSAP, SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20161984201419872001
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201916.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesSQL with time-series extensionsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceInterbaseQuestDBSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASESphinx
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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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 ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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