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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Graphite vs. Memcached

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGChris DavisDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2013200920062003
Current release3.10.0, March 20221.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaPythonC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoJavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Servernonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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