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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Faircom DB vs. MarkLogic vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	6.50
Rank	#56	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#5	Search engines

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.marklogic.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.marklogic.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FairCom Corporation

MarkLogic Corp.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2009

1979

2001

2009

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V12, November 2020

11.0, December 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes, using Riak Security

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