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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. Memgraph vs. OrientDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.citusdata.commemgraph.comorientdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.citusdata.commemgraph.com/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonMemgraph LtdOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20142012201020172010
Current release8.1, December 20183.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC and C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java, Javascript
TriggersyesnoyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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AlaSQLAmazon CloudSearchCitusMemgraphOrientDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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