DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. ReductStore

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2023

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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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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