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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala

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Name

Description

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

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Primary database model

Search engine

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Alibaba

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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 rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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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