DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.mysql.com

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

dev.mysql.com/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

1995

2011

2007

1992

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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