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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Bangdb vs. BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

bangdb.com

bigobject.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.bangdb.com

docs.bigobject.io

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

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BigObject, Inc.

Elastic

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2010

2018

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

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

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

yes

none

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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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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