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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

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Website

atoti.io

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

ActiveViam

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

Spotify

Initial release

2009

2014

2001

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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