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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Ehcache vs. Graph Engine vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

www.graphengine.io

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Google

Initial release

2012

2009

2010

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

.NET

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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