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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.snowflake.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2009

2016

2014

2003

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.10, January 2022

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Round robin

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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