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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQL.JS vs. Vertica

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresPort of SQLite to JavaScriptCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsql.js.orgwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSybase, SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20092009199320122005
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.2.0, December 202212.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesJavaC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangyesnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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EhcacheRiak KVSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSSQL.JSVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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