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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Geode vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegeode.apache.orgmilvus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFairCom CorporationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.quasardb
Initial release20091979200220192009
Current release3.10.0, March 2022V3, October 20201.1, February 20172.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++JavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights per client and object definableRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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