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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BigObject vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenEdge vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.progress.com/openedge

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.bigobject.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

BigObject, Inc.

IBM

Progress Software Corporation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

1984

2003

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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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)

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

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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