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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. InfinityDB vs. Splunk

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 cloudA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchboilerbay.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AmazonBoiler Bay Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release2016201220022003
Current release4.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users and roles
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAmazon CloudSearchInfinityDBSplunk
Specific characteristicsA 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 modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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