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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.esgyn.cn

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Esgyn

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Initial release

2009

2015

2002

2015

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

using Azure authentication

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