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DBMS > Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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.Spatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCCRi and othersCNRSSpotify
Initial release2009201420132014
Current release3.10.0, March 20224.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2no
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2

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