DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. RDFox vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. RDFox vs. ToroDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFully managed big data interactive analytics platformHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMicrosoftOxford Semantic Technologies8Kdata
Initial release2009201920172016
Current release3.10.0, March 2022cloud service with continuous releases6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.replication via a shared file systemSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAzure Active Directory AuthenticationRoles, resources, and access typesAccess rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
EhcacheMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerRDFoxToroDB
Recent citations in the news

Atlassian asks customers to patch critical Jira vulnerability
22 July 2021, BleepingComputer

Critical Jira Flaw in Atlassian Could Lead to RCE
22 July 2021, Threatpost

DZone Coding Java JBoss 5 to 7 in 11 steps
9 January 2014, dzone.com

provided by Google News

Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark
16 August 2022, Microsoft

Providing modern data transfer and storage service at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure - Inside Track Blog
13 July 2023, Microsoft

Controlling costs in Azure Data Explorer using down-sampling and aggregation
11 February 2019, Microsoft

Individually great, collectively unmatched: Announcing updates to 3 great Azure Data Services
7 February 2019, Microsoft

Log and Telemetry Analytics Performance Benchmark
16 August 2022, Gigaom

provided by Google News

Use semantic reasoning to infer new facts from your RDF graph by integrating RDFox with Amazon Neptune | Amazon ...
20 February 2023, AWS Blog

The intuitions behind Knowledge Graphs and Reasoning | by Peter Crocker
5 May 2020, Towards Data Science

Eight interesting open-source graph databases
3 January 2023, INDIAai

Financial Crime Discovery using Amazon EKS and Graph Databases | Amazon Web Services
1 February 2022, AWS Blog

Finding patterns with rules, using Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Reasoning | by Peter Crocker
14 May 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here