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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Spatial extension of H2

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.harperdb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CNRS

HarperDB

Microsoft

Initial release

2009

2013

2017

2016

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

based on H2

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

yes, using LMDB

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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