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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.geomesa.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGElasticCCRi and othersInterSystemsSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20092010201420181992
Current release3.10.0, March 20228.6, January 20235.0.0, May 20242023.3, June 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
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 layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
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 layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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