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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2009

2010

2013

2018

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

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++, Go

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

users and table-level permissions

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups 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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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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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metrics

Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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