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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. FatDB vs. Hive vs. PostGIS

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

hive.apache.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2009

2012

2005

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.1.3, April 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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