DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Citus vs. ClickHouse

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Citus vs. ClickHouse

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Name

Description

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

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

phoenix.apache.org

www.citusdata.com

clickhouse.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

phoenix.apache.org

docs.citusdata.com

clickhouse.com/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Clickhouse Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2010

2016

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

8.1, December 2018

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

JDBC

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

key based and custom

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or 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

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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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