DBMS > Ehcache vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#304	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

SenX

Initial release

2009

2007

2014

2015

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

commercial, open source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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