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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. Neo4j vs. TigerGraph

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
neo4j.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsneo4j.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.BaiduNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release20092004201820072017
Current release3.10.0, March 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.95.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonJavaJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUsers, roles and permissionsUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Role-based access control
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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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