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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. mSQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Alibaba

Hughes Technologies

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

1994

2003

Current release

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

Multi-source replication

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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.

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users 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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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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