DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. eXtremeDB vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. eXtremeDB vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

McObject

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2016

2001

2012

2000

2022

Current release

8.2, 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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