DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2019

2012

1989

2014

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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