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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.graphengine.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Spotify

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2009

2010

2014

1993

1994

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.4-12

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

.NET

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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