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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Graph Engine

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Name

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

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

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gigaspaces.com

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2010

Current release

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

.NET

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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)

Role-based access control

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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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