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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

rdf4j.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Esgyn

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2009

2015

1983

2004

2008

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

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)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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