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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Graphite vs. GreptimeDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgreptime.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.greptime.comspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGChris DavisGreptime Inc.SpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release20092006202220142016
Current release3.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaPythonRustJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPythonnoTransact SQL
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSimple rights management via user accountsyes
More information provided by the system vendor
EhcacheGraphiteGreptimeDBHeroicMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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