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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

ActiveViam

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Event Store Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2009

2012

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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