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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Realm

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

machbase.com

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

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

machbase.com/dbms

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

realm.io/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Machbase

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2009

2013

1989

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V8.0, August 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free test version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Change Listeners

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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