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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2009

2015

2010

1995

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.3 July 2023

V12

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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