Stroom vs ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer: What are the differences?

Developers describe Stroom as "A scalable data storage, processing and analysis platform". It is a data processing, storage and analysis platform. It is scalable - just add more CPUs / servers for greater throughput. It is suitable for processing high volume data such as system logs, to provide valuable insights into IT performance and usage. On the other hand, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is detailed as "Collect, analyze, searche, correlate, report, and store logs from a centralized platform". It is one of the preferred SIEM log management software of cyber-security consultants and white-hat hackers It can keep all event logs and Syslogs in one place, sort them out, and analyze them in real time. It is a no brainer when it comes to your security logs..

Stroom can be classified as a tool in the "Big Data Tools" category, while ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is grouped under "Log Management".

Some of the features offered by Stroom are:

• Receive and store large volumes of data such as native format logs. Ingested data is always available in its raw form
• Create sequences of XSL and text operations, in order to normalise or export data in any format. It is possible to enrich data using lookups and reference data
• Easily add new data formats and debug the transformations if they don't work as expected

On the other hand, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer provides the following key features:

• Log Collection
• Log Analysis
• Log Archiving

Stroom is an open source tool with 319 GitHub stars and 33 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Stroom's open source repository on GitHub.