DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.progress.com/openedge

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

1984

2014

2010

2003

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

close to SQL 92

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

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

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Users and groups

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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