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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TinkerGraph vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
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Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.h2database.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

SenX

Initial release

2009

2005

1989

2009

2015

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

TinkerPop 3

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

optional

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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