DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. RethinkDB vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. RethinkDB vs. ScyllaDB

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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.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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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	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rethinkdb.com

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2009

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.4.1, August 2020

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

in-memory tables

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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