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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Fauna vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

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Name	Ehcache  Xexclude from comparison	Fauna previously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
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.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database model	Key-value store	Document store Graph DBMS Relational DBMS Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models				Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 6.54 Rank #64   Overall #8   Key-value stores	Score 1.33 Rank #148   Overall #25   Document stores #12   Graph DBMS #71   Relational DBMS #10   Time Series DBMS	Score 3.66 Rank #91   Overall #48   Relational DBMS	Score 1.91 Rank #127   Overall #2   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.ehcache.org	fauna.com	www.sap.com/­products/­advantage-database-server.html	www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentation	www.ehcache.org/­documentation	docs.fauna.com		www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer	Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG	Fauna, Inc.	Sybase, SAP	Alessandro Furieri
Initial release	2009	2014	1993	2008
Current release	3.9.6, September 2021			5.0.0, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available	commercial	commercial	Open Source MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	Scala		C++
Server operating systems	All OS with a Java VM	hosted	Linux Windows	server-less
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JCache	RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	C# Go Java JavaScript Python Ruby Scala Swift	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	user defined functions	yes	no
Triggers	yes Cache Event Listeners	no	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding by using Terracotta Server	horizontal partitioning consistent hashing	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes by using Terracotta Server	Multi-source replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	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	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes using a tiered cache-storage approach	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	no	Identity management, authentication, and access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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