DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.dbase.com

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

1979

1989

2010

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

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

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

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

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

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

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

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

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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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