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DBMS > BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. SAP HANA

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#333  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score3.98
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score32.01
Rank#24  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.ehcache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSAP
Initial release201520092010
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMAppliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoSQLScript, R
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Serveryes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes

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