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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Newts vs. SQLite vs. Valentina Server

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sqlite.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FairCom Corporation

OpenNMS Group

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2009

1979

2014

2000

1999

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V3, October 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

via file-system locks

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

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