DBMS > AlaSQL vs. CockroachDB vs. jBASE vs. Neo4j vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CockroachDB vs. jBASE vs. Neo4j vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
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	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	42.68
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

neo4j.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

neo4j.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cockroach Labs

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Neo4j, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

1991

2007

2014

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

5.7

5.23, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

yes using Neo4j Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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