DBMS > Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB 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

Widely used RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oracle.com/database

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

Oracle

Percona

SAP

Initial release

2009

2014

1980

2015

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

23c, September 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

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

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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