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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Neo4j vs. searchxml vs. Tibero

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score42.68
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.46
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comneo4j.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlneo4j.com/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerNeo4j, Inc.informationpartners gmbhTmaxSoft
Initial release20142005200720152003
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.23, August 20241.07, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, ScalaC++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyes infoon the application serverPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handlernoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes using Neo4j Fabricnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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AlaSQLH2Neo4jsearchxmlTibero
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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