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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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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.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2009

2012

1987

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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