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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2GIS vs. Kingbase vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Spatial extension of H2

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Rank	#67	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
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Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CNRS

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2009

2013

1999

2021

2006

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V8.0, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

based on H2

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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