DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com/resources

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Exasol

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2015

2016

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Hadoop integration

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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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