DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Solr vs. Sqrrl vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Solr vs. Sqrrl vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed 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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

solr.apache.org

sqrrl.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2016

2012

2006

2012

2018

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Eventual Consistency

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

optimistic locking

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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.

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)

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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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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