DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB

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

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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.mcobject.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

McObject

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2001

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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