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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BigchainDB vs. Splunk vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.bigchaindb.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2003

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes, each node contains all data

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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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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