DBMS > Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. GridGain vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

www.gridgain.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2009

2014

2007

1993

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

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

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Jira Data Center user? Here's a critical Ehcache vulnerability to spoil your day
22 July 2021, The Register

Atlassian asks customers to patch critical Jira vulnerability
22 July 2021, BleepingComputer

Critical Jira Flaw in Atlassian Could Lead to RCE
22 July 2021, Threatpost

DZone Coding Java JBoss 5 to 7 in 11 steps
9 January 2014, DZone

provided by Google News

GridGain to Sponsor and Speak at Three Key Industry Events in May 2024
6 May 2024, Martechcube

GridGain's 2023 Growth Positions Company for Strong 2024
25 January 2024, Datanami

GridGain Announces Call for Speakers for Virtual Apache Ignite Summit 2024
8 February 2024, PR Newswire

GridGain Named in the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Event Stream Processing
22 August 2023, GlobeNewswire

GridGain to Sponsor, Exhibit at Kafka Summit 2024 in London
12 March 2024, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View
19 October 2023, SAP News

AIRWORLD PART 15: WORLD'S SECOND BEST AIRPORT TERMINAL
30 September 2005, Ad Age

provided by Google News

Share this page