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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Graph Engine vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.graphengine.io

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2009

2010

2014

2008

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

.NET

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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