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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.geomesa.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Elastic

CCRi and others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

2000

Current release

8.6, January 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

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

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

depending on storage layer

none

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

depending on storage layer

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

via file-system locks

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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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