DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS library

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

www.coveo.com

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.coveo.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Coveo

LeanXcale

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

2015

2021

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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