DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2007

2012

2016

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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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