DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Elasticsearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. Elasticsearch

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Name

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#279	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

brytlyt.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.brytlyt.io

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Brytlyt

Elastic

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2016

2010

Current release

5.0, August 2023

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

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, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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