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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. HyperSQL vs. RDF4J vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

hsqldb.org

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2009

2001

2004

1992

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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)

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 support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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