DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BoltDB vs. Neo4j vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BoltDB vs. Neo4j vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.An embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltneo4j.comrocksdb.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsneo4j.com/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.Neo4j, Inc.Facebook, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20162013200720132019
Current release5.20, May 20249.2.1, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Neo4j Aura: Neo4j’s fully managed cloud service: The zero-admin, always-on graph database for cloud developers.
Implementation languageGoJava, ScalaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
C++ API
Java API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)noAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceBoltDBNeo4jRocksDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
» more
Neo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
» more
Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
» more
Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
» more
Neo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
» more
Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
» more
Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
» more
Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
» more
As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
» more
Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
» more
Over 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
» more
All companies that have data. ​
» more
Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
» more
As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
» more
GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
» more
Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
» more
News

Neo4j-Databricks Connector Delivers Deeper Insights, Faster GenAI Development
10 June 2024

This Week in Neo4j: Podcast, Testing, Knowledge Graph, GenAI and more
8 June 2024

Neo4j and Snowflake Bring Graph Data Science Into the AI Data Cloud
4 June 2024

RDF vs. Property Graphs: Choosing the Right Approach for Implementing a Knowledge Graph
4 June 2024

This Week in Neo4j: Importing Data, NODES, GenAI, Going Meta and more
1 June 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesSpeedb: A high performance RocksDB-compliant key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceBoltDBNeo4jRocksDBWeaviate
DB-Engines blog posts

Applying Graph Analytics to Game of Thrones
12 June 2019, Amy Hodler & Mark Needham, Neo4j (guest author)

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

The openCypher Project: Help Shape the SQL for Graphs
22 December 2015, Emil Eifrem (guest author)

show all

Weaviate, an ANN Database with CRUD support
2 February 2021,  Etienne Dilocker, SeMI Technologies (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

Alibaba Cloud Further Facilitates Digital Transformation Acceleration across Asia in the Year of the Pandemic
27 January 2021, PR Newswire

How Data Analytics Capabilities of Alibaba Group Evolve Its Ecosystem to the Cloud
20 February 2021, DataDrivenInvestor

Alibaba Cloud launches China Gateway program in Singapore
30 May 2019, global.chinadaily.com.cn

Cloud comparison tool - AWS Vs Google Vs IBM Vs Microsoft Vs Alibaba Cloud
6 March 2019, Wire19

CDN comparison: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM, Alibaba Cloud
7 November 2019, Daily Host News

provided by Google News

What I learnt from building 3 high traffic web applications on an embedded key value store.
21 February 2018, hackernoon.com

4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss
1 March 2024, The Hacker News

Roblox’s cloud-native catastrophe: A post mortem
31 January 2022, InfoWorld

Three Reasons DevOps Should Consider Rocky Linux 9.4
15 May 2024, DevOps.com

How to Put a GUI on Ansible, Using Semaphore
22 April 2023, The New Stack

provided by Google News

Neo4j employs knowledge graphs as part of the AI stack
11 June 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Neo4j graph analytics integrated with Snowflake's AI cloud – Blocks and Files
7 June 2024, Blocks and Files

Neo4j Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Advance GenAI and Data Solutions USA - English - India - English
26 March 2024, PR Newswire

Using Neo4j’s graph database for AI in Azure
4 April 2024, InfoWorld

Neo4j Announces Collaboration with Snowflake for Advanced AI Insights & Predictive Analytics
4 June 2024, Yahoo Finance

provided by Google News

Did Rockset Just Solve Real-Time Analytics?
25 August 2021, Datanami

Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
31 August 2022, The Next Platform

Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads
29 March 2024, Phoronix

Facebook's MyRocks Truly Rocks!
21 September 2020, Open Source For You

Power your Kafka Streams application with Amazon MSK and AWS Fargate | Amazon Web Services
10 August 2021, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Build enterprise-ready generative AI solutions with Cohere foundation models in Amazon Bedrock and Weaviate vector ...
24 January 2024, AWS Blog

Weaviate Partners with Snowflake to Bring Secure GenAI to Snowpark Container Services
8 February 2024, Datanami

Weaviate Partners with Snowflake to Bring Secure GenAI to Snowpark Container Services
9 February 2024, AiThority

Foley Represents Cortical Ventures in $50M Series B Round for Weaviate
17 December 2023, Foley & Lardner LLP

Getting Started with Weaviate: A Beginner's Guide to Search with Vector Databases
18 July 2023, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here