DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2016

2003

2014

2017

2018

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

Synchronous replication

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

Eventual 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.

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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