DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

phoenix.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

phoenix.apache.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2014

2000

2014

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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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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