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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB

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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.

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented 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	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

Spotify

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2009

2014

1993

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

3.4-12

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

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

yes

Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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