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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

1989

2009

2006

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Erlang

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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, using Riak Security

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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