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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. NCache vs. RDF4J

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacherdf4j.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFirebird FoundationAlachisoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release200420092000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20052004
Current release8.0, December 20233.10.0, March 20225.0.0, January 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JCacheADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoPSQLno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoNotificationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
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AllegroGraphEhcacheFirebirdNCacheRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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