DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Brytlyt vs. CrateDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Brytlyt vs. CrateDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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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

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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

brytlyt.io

cratedb.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.brytlyt.io

cratedb.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Brytlyt

Crate

Google

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2013

2015

Current release

5.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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

yes

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions (Javascript)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Source-replica replication

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

Atomic single-row operations

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metrics

The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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