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

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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 distributed reliable key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector 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	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Elastic

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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