DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. LeanXcale vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. LeanXcale vs. Splunk

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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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	128.79
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.leanxcale.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Elastic

LeanXcale

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2015

2003

Current release

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer 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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

Multi-source replication

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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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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