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DBMS > EJDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GraphDB vs. NCache vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GraphDB vs. NCache vs. TinkerGraph

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ontotext.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperSoftmotionsGoogleOntotextAlachisoft
Initial release20122017200020052009
Current release10.4, October 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyespartial 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes infoConstraint checkingnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
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EJDBGoogle Cloud FirestoreGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMNCacheTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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