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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. ClickHouse vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. ClickHouse vs. Splunk

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#249  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score18.77
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score71.39
Rank#18  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceclickhouse.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsclickhouse.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Clickhouse Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release201620162003
Current releasev24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingkey based and customSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.Access rights for users and roles

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