DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Dolt vs. Elasticsearch vs. LeanXcale vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Dolt vs. Elasticsearch vs. LeanXcale vs. ReductStore

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.dolthub.com

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

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

DoltHub Inc

Elastic

LeanXcale

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2016

2018

2010

2015

2023

Current release

8.6, January 2023

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C
Java
Scala

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

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

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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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