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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL vs. Solr vs. Trafodion

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used open source RDBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	44.28
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.mysql.com

solr.apache.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

dev.mysql.com/doc

solr.apache.org/resources.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2009

1995

2006

2014

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.3.0, January 2024

9.5.0, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java plugins

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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