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DBMS > Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TimescaleDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orggeospock.comgreenplum.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeoSpockPivotal Software Inc.Community supported by Red HatTimescale
Initial release2009200520142017
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.0, September 20197.0.0, September 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2noyes
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBCJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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