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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Fauna vs. Oracle vs. QuestDB vs. searchxml

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFauna 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.Widely used RDBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.ehcache.orgfauna.comwww.oracle.com/­databasequestdb.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasequestdb.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFauna, Inc.OracleQuestDB Technology Incinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20092014198020142015
Current release3.10.0, March 202223c, September 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possiblenoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be realized in PL/SQLnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACID for single-table writesmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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EhcacheFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBOracleQuestDBsearchxml
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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