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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JaguarDB vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Neo4j

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsJavaScript 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 offerings
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.jaguardb.comjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSneo4j.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMDataJaguar, Inc.Konrad von BackstromNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release20172015201820142007
Current release2.03.3 July 20230.8, December 20185.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScriptJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
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
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScript.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnofunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersnononoyesyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replicationnonenoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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IBM Db2 Event StoreJaguarDBJSqlDbLokiJSNeo4j
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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