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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

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

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.ehcache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rdf4j.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2009

1989

2004

2018

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.10.0, March 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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