DBMS > Dgraph vs. Ehcache vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Ehcache vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.ehcache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Embarcadero

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2009

1984

2014

2000

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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