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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Neo4j vs. RethinkDB

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NameJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionPerformant, 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 offeringsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.jaguardb.comjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSneo4j.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSneo4j.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDataJaguar, Inc.Konrad von BackstromNeo4j, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20152018201420072009
Current release3.3 July 20230.8, December 20185.20, May 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScriptJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
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
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScript.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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnofunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersnonoyesyes infovia event handlerClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyes using Neo4j FabricSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC based
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yes infousers and table-level permissions
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JaguarDBJSqlDbLokiJSNeo4jRethinkDB
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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