DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

AlibabaCloud Inc.

CCRi and others

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

2010

2021

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

3 replicas

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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