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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Hive vs. PostGIS vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Hive vs. PostGIS vs. Vitess

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orghive.apache.orgpostgis.netvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homepostgis.net/­documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2009201220052013
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.1.3, April 20223.4.2, February 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaCGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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