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

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

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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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.47
Rank	#246	Overall
	#16	Search engines

Score	25.94
Rank	#31	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#329	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#269	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	18.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#25	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

www.brytlyt.com

www.cloudera.com/products/open-source/apache-hadoop/impala.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/28958.htm

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/impala.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Brytlyt

Cloudera

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2016

2013

Current release

0.9, October 2016

4.0.0, July 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

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

Linux

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.

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

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

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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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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