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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Neo4j vs. SWC-DB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSneo4j.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticKonrad von BackstromNeo4j, Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20102018201420072020
Current release8.6, January 20230.8, December 20185.19, April 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infovia viewsyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesfunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyes using Neo4j FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnoneCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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ElasticsearchJSqlDbLokiJSNeo4jSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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