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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.hawkular.org

hsqldb.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Community supported by Red Hat

Oracle

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2009

2014

2001

2011

2001

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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 DML and DDL statements

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP REST

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

optimistic locking

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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