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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQream DB vs. VelocityDB

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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.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
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	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.sqream.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

Sequoiadb Ltd.

SQream Technologies

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2009

2014

2013

2017

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

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

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

proprietary protocol using JSON

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

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

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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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