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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Kdb vs. MonetDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Kdb vs. MonetDB vs. Splunk

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.High performance Time Series DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicekx.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscode.kx.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMonetDB BVSplunk Inc.
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320042003
Current release3.6, May 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageqC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (q)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectorno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceKdbMonetDBSplunk
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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