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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Neo4j vs. Oracle vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TDengine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsWidely used RDBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Relational 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
Score44.47
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1234.27
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#109  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgneo4j.comwww.oracle.com/­databasewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlneo4j.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffNeo4j, Inc.OracleOracleTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20142007198020112019
Current release5.19, April 202423c, September 202323.3, December 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ScalaC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possiblenono
Triggersyesyes infovia event handleryesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes using Neo4j FabricSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be realized in PL/SQLwith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes
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AlaSQLNeo4jOracleOracle NoSQLTDengine
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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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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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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