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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. etcd vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed reliable key-value storeA widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
hazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
hazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2013200920082010
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.4, August 20195.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaGoJavaErlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJCachegRPC
JSON over HTTP
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, watching key changesyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes 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.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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