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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. Memgraph vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.ehcache.org

memgraph.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

memgraph.com/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Memgraph Ltd

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2009

2017

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JCache

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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