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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Neo4j vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseneo4j.comrethinkdb.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9neo4j.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Neo4j, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20141991200720092006
Current release5.75.20, May 20242.4.1, August 20208.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ScalaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 Luceneyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handlerClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes using Neo4j FabricSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesyesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLjBASENeo4jRethinkDBSadas Engine
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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