DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

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Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Search engine

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Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

impala.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Esgyn

Google

Initial release

2016

2013

2015

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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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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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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