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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. NCache vs. Splunk vs. TiDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreAnalytics Platform for Big DataTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.splunk.compingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AlachisoftSplunk Inc.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2016200520032016
Current release5.3.3, April 20248.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP RESTGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesno
Triggersyesyes infoNotificationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesyesyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Access rights for users and rolesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceNCacheSplunkTiDB
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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