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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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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	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

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

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

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)

simple rights management via user accounts

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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