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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

IBM

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2009

2017

2004

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Active-active shard replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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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