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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.marklogic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.marklogic.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2001

2014

2018

Current release

11.0, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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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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