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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ehcache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2009

2018

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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