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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2009

2012

2006

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

optimistic locking

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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