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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  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 dataMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.44
Rank#257  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicedruid.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerElasticIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20162012200820102010
Current release30.0.0, June 20247.2.4, September 20128.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL for queryingyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectornonoES-Hadoop Connectoryes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono 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.nonoMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache DruidDrizzleElasticsearchIBM Cloudant
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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