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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicedruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2016201220162001
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache DruidBigchainDBSphinx
Specific characteristicsA 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 modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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