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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented 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	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.geomesa.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CCRi and others

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2009

2012

2014

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

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)

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Based on Windows Authentication

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