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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	0.44
Rank	#257	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

1994

2003

2011

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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.

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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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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