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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spatial extension of SQLite

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2009

2010

2008

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Any that supports .NET

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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