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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM vs. Spark SQL vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

spark.apache.org/sql

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2009

2014

1993

2014

2009

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4-12

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

yes

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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