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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. OrigoDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGElasticCCRi and othersSpotifyRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20092010201420142009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release3.10.0, March 20228.6, January 20234.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingdepending on storage layerShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesdepending on storage layeryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, alldepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationdepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole based authorization

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