DBMS > Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

firebase.google.com/docs/database

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Softmotions

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2009

2012

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

in-process shared library

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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