DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Linter vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Linter vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake

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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

RDBMS for high security requirements

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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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	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

linter.ru

rockset.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

relex.ru

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

1990

2019

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

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

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.

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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