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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. EXASOL vs. FoundationDB vs. OpenEdge vs. RDF4J

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Application development environment with integrated database management systemRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.progress.com/­openedgerdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGExasolFoundationDBProgress Software CorporationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20092000201319842004
Current release3.10.0, March 20226.2.28, November 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsJCache.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoUsers and groupsno

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