DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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Description

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

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Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
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Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

machbase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Machbase

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2013

1989

1993

2008

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

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

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

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

A 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-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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