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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. searchxml vs. Splunk

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Googleinformationpartners gmbhSplunk Inc.
Initial release2016201720152003
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedWindowsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationmultiple readers, single writerno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess rights for users and roles
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceGoogle Cloud SpannersearchxmlSplunk
Specific characteristicsA 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-Financeļ¼šhe infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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