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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hypertable vs. searchxml

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.hawkular.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Community supported by Red Hat

Hypertable Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2009

2014

2009

2015

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP REST

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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