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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ehcache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

objectbox.io

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.ehcache.org/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.objectbox.io

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Rackspace

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Tencent

Initial release

2013

2009

1989

2017

2013

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

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

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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