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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. IBM Db2 vs. jBASE vs. Neo4j

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open source graph database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in DB2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)

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Score	7.27
Rank	#55	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	157.17
Rank	#6	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	53.79
Rank	#19	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.ibm.com/analytics/db2

www.jbase.com

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG

docs.zumasys.com/jbase

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

IBM

Zumasys

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2009

1983

host version

1991

2007

Current release

3.8.1, September 2019

12.1, October 2016

5.7

4.2.2, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

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