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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Spark SQL

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGChris DavisSpotifyApache Software Foundation
Initial release2009200620142014
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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