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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. Realm vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. YottaDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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 DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

realm.io/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sybase, SAP

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2009

2014

1993

2001

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

optimistic locking

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

In-Memory realm

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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