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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridDB vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgriddb.netgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.griddb.nettechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.ElasticToshiba Corporation
Initial release2016201020132014
Current release8.6, January 20235.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop ConnectorES-Hadoop ConnectorConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceElasticsearchGridDBLokiJS
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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