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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

duckdb.org

www.ehcache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

acquired by Google 2014

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2009

2012

2011

Current release

0.10, February 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JCache

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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