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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. XTDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orggalaxybase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司SpotifyJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2009201720142019
Current release3.10.0, March 2022Nov 20, November 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJCacheBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control

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