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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. Memcached vs. SwayDB vs. WakandaDB

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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)

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.memcached.org

swaydb.simer.au

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Softmotions

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Simer Plaha

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2009

2012

2003

2018

2012

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.6.25, March 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JCache

in-process shared library

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Atomic execution of operations

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

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

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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