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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orgwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatMonetDB BVSiteWhere
Initial release20092012201420042010
Current release3.10.0, March 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyes infoCache Event ListenersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyesnoACIDno
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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