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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. Kingbase vs. ObjectBox vs. TimesTen

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.kingbase.com.cnobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSoftmotionsBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.ObjectBox LimitedOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20092012199920171998
Current release3.10.0, March 2022V8.0, August 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJCachein-process shared libraryADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoPL/SQL
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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