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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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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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	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

Spotify

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2014

2019

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

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

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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