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

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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 Hadoop

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

bigobject.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

BigObject, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2015

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

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++

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)

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.

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

selectable replication factor

none

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

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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)

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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