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DBMS > BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

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

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2009

2015

2012

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

yes

no

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

no

no

no

Triggers

no

yes

Cache Event Listeners

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

no

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

no

yes

using Azure authentication

no

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