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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Neo4j vs. TerarkDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF 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
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchneo4j.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchneo4j.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonNeo4j, Inc.ByteDance, originally TerarkDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142012200720162018
Current release5.19, April 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ScalaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
C++ API
Java API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infovia event handlernoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredyes using Neo4j FabricnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)noRole-based access control
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AlaSQLAmazon CloudSearchNeo4jTerarkDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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