When comparing Scribe vs ODE, the Slant community recommends Scribe for most people. In the question“What are the best log management, aggregation & monitoring tools?” Scribe is ranked 13th while ODE is ranked 35th. The most important reason people chose Scribe is:
Scribe uses Thrift for its protocol encoding so it's compatible with pretty much any language you want to use with it.
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Pros
Pro Works with pretty much any language
Scribe uses Thrift for its protocol encoding so it's compatible with pretty much any language you want to use with it.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under the Apache 2.0.
Pro Scales easily
ODE instances are independent of each other, so they don't have to worry about a peer being added/removed. This allows the cluster to grow without any performance hit on the log aggregation. There is no redundancy built-in, but you can always use the forwarder to duplicate data. There is no sharding configuration or any other penalty that comes up with scaling a cluster. The clustering configuration is also very easy where you just list out peers for one of the node in order for it to run a search query on the whole cluster and merge the results. Scales better than any other open source log management tool out there.
Pro Add new parsers as you like
You can add any parser you want to ODE.
Pro Highly customizable
Pro Easy to use
Cons
Con No longer supported
Scribe has been abandoned and is no longer supported by Facebook. This means that it's no longer possible to submit pull requests or to open issues.
Con Still in beta
Opallios ODE seems to be still in beta, as such there may be issues or missing features which are not yet implemented.