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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Rdb vs. XTDB

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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

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2014

2016

1984

2019

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

HP Open VMS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
PHP

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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