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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20122016201220082010
Current release7.1, May 202429.0.1, April 20247.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL for queryingyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith LuanononoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor3 replicasyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/ReduceES-Hadoop Connectornonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAlibaba Cloud user access controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache DruidDrizzleIBM Cloudant
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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