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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Memgraph vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

memgraph.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

memgraph.com/docs

qdrant.tech/documentation

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Qdrant

Initial release

2014

2010

2017

2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

Key-based authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Licensing and pricing models

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