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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

IBM

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2014

2016

2021

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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