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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Spatial extension of H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.h2gis.org

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

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CNRS

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2009

2013

1989

2004

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

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

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

based on H2

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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