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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

galaxybase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Spotify

Microsoft

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2017

2014

2016

2019

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

Nov 20, November 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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

C and Java

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

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