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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Rank	#150	Overall
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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Community supported by Red Hat

Hazelcast

Initial release

2012

2009

2014

2008

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Replicated Map

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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