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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. CouchDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake 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.

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2005

2017

2014

2003

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

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

strategy: optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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