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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orggeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.stardog.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaMireoStardog-Union
Initial release20092002201220202010
Current release3.10.0, March 20221.1, February 20177.1, August 20217.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyes, on a single nodenonoACID
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.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesAccess rights for users and roles

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