DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB vs. Solr vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB vs. Solr vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com

solr.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com/guides

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

2006

2000

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

9.6.0, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

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

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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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