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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name	Ehcache  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database model	Key-value store	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.64 Rank #68   Overall #8   Key-value stores	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #371   Overall #39   Graph DBMS
Website	www.ehcache.org	boilerbay.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentation	www.ehcache.org/­documentation	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG	Boiler Bay Inc.	Microsoft	Transwarp
Initial release	2009	2002	2016
Current release	3.10.0, March 2022	4.0
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	Java	Java	C++
Server operating systems	All OS with a Java VM	All OS with a Java VM	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	JCache	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	OpenCypher
Supported programming languages	Java	Java	C# Java PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	Transact SQL
Triggers	yes Cache Event Listeners	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding by using Terracotta Server	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes by using Terracotta Server	none	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)	Immediate Consistency READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes supports JTA and can work as an XA resource	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes using a tiered cache-storage approach	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no
User concepts Access control	no	no	yes	yes
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	Ehcache	InfinityDB	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Transwarp StellarDB
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