DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Trino

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Name

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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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	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2018

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

yes

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

none

depending on connected data-source

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

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

SQL standard access control

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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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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metrics

33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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