DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Memgraph vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Memgraph vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

memgraph.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Memgraph Ltd

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2015

2013

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

Users, roles and permissions

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