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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 cloudA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Search engineTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AmazonElasticMicrosoft
Initial release20162012201020132015
Current release8.6, January 20232.7.6, April 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectorno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)ES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accountsyes infousing Azure authentication
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAmazon DynamoDBElasticsearchInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure AI Search
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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