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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.h2database.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FairCom Corporation

Thomas Mueller

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2009

1979

2005

2016

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V3, October 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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