DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. jBASE vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. jBASE vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

help.sap.com/hana

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

docs.timescale.com

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP

Tencent

Timescale

Initial release

2016

1991

2010

2013

2017

Current release

5.7

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Automatic sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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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