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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2 vs. OpenQM vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog

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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.

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.h2database.com

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Thomas Mueller

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Mireo

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2009

2005

1993

2020

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

3.4-12

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

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

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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