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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/neptune

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2017

2010

2015

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

using Azure authentication

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