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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCCRi and othersThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release20092014200520102015
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, May 20242.2.220, July 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layernoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layerWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authentication

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