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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA

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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.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#304	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

Initial release

2009

2003

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

1.6.29, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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