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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA widely adopted in-memory data gridEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orghazelcast.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrdf4j.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHazelcastGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20092008201420042018
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.3.6, November 20232.1.12, February 201711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnoyesyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoEventsUsing read-only observersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infoReplicated MapnonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnonoRole-based access control

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