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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. EJDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Neo4j

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbcloud.google.com/­bigqueryneo4j.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.SoftmotionsGoogleNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release2016201220102007
Current release5.19, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedserver-lesshostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceEJDBGoogle BigQueryNeo4j
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Neo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Neo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Over 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 modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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