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

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

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A 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 data

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

druid.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2010

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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++

Erlang

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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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