DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Axibase vs. BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Axibase vs. BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Axibase Corporation

Elastic

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2010

2013

Current release

15585

8.6, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

BSD

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user 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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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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