DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. InfluxDB vs. Linter vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. InfluxDB vs. Linter vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

linter.ru

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

relex.ru

Amazon Web Services

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2013

1990

2021

2020

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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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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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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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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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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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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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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