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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached vs. Neo4j

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineCloud-based data warehousing serviceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score44.47
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.memcached.orgneo4j.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikineo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftIBMDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release20142010201420032007
Current release1.6.25, March 20245.18.1, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CCJava, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NEThostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnoneyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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AlaSQLGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMemcachedNeo4j
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 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 modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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