DBMS > Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

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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.

Widely used RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

www.oracle.com/database

velocitydb.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

Oracle

VelocityDB Inc

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2009

2014

1980

2011

2013

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

23c, September 2023

7.x

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Any that supports .NET

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.Net

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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