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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Ehcache vs. Fauna vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Fauna 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.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

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

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.ehcache.org

fauna.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Fauna, Inc.

InterSystems

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2009

2014

2018

2000

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2023.3, June 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

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