DBMS > Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Snowflake

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Thomas Mueller

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2009

2012

2005

2010

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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)

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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