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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle NoSQL

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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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

www.hawkular.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

Community supported by Red Hat

Oracle

Initial release

2009

2014

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

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