DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. YugabyteDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Google

Microsoft

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2012

2017

Current release

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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