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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Ehcache vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

machbase.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.ehcache.org/documentation

machbase.com/dbms

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Machbase

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2009

2013

2007

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

3.10.0, March 2022

V8.0, August 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

optionally

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

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

simple password-based access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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