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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Faircom DB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FairCom Corporation

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2009

1979

2010

2015

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V12, November 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

selectable replication factor

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)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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 with additional protections for files

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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