DBMS > Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.78
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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
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	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.tigergraph.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

Google

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2009

2014

2010

2017

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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