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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. searchxml

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2009

2014

2016

2015

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.0

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

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

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.

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

on the application server

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

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

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

yes

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

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