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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Ehcache vs. Neo4j vs. TerminusDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score4.79
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score42.68
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.ehcache.orgneo4j.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationneo4j.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGNeo4j, Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2018200920072018
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20223.10.0, March 20225.23, August 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, ScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JCacheBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Java.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia event handleryes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoby using Terracotta Serveryes using Neo4j FabricGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Role-based access control
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DolphinDBEhcacheNeo4jTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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