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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Ehcache vs. Fauna vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ehcache.orgfauna.comwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAxibase CorporationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFauna, Inc.Thomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20132009201420052010
Current release155853.10.0, March 20222.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnoyesno
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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