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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 dataDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicedruid.apache.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.datastax.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsDataStaxDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20162012201120082010
Current release29.0.1, April 20246.8, April 20207.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per objectPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache DruidDatastax EnterpriseDrizzleIBM Cloudant
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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