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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.23
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehbase.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenNMS GroupApache Software Foundation
Initial release20092012200820142012
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.3.4, January 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoCoprocessors in JavanoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infoCache Event ListenersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnono

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