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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

en.gstore.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2009

2016

2014

1987

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.2, November 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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