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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

In-memory caching system

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cachelot.io

www.ehcache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ehcache.org/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Spotify

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2015

2009

2014

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

JCache

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

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

none

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

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