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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.hawkular.org

machbase.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Community supported by Red Hat

Machbase

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2009

2014

2013

2009

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V8.0, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes, using Riak Security

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