DBMS > Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

InterSystems

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2009

2014

2018

2016

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2023.3, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based 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

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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