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DBMS > Ehcache vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWell established RDBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.actian.com/­ingreslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHEAVY.AI, Inc.Actian CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release200920161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2015
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.10, January 202211.2, May 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication

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