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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. CockroachDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cockroach Labs

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

1989

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is 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
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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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