DBMS > Ehcache vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.immudb.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Codenotary

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Transwarp

Initial release

2009

2020

1989

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.2.3, April 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like syntax

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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