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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. EventStoreDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.eventstore.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

boilerbay.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

developers.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Event Store Limited

IBM

Boiler Bay Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2009

2012

2014

2002

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

21.2, February 2021

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

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

yes

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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