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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Ehcache vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.ehcache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2009

2014

1992

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

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

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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)

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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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