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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

fauna.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.fauna.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Fauna, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2009

2014

1993

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

none

yes

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

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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