DBMS > Dgraph vs. Ehcache vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Neo4j

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Ehcache vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Neo4j

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	42.68
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.ehcache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

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

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2009

1991

1989

2007

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.23, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

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

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

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

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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