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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. VelocityDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.marklogic.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.marklogic.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersMarkLogic Corp.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20092000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420012011
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, January 20245.0.0, May 202411.0, December 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++ScalaC++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL92no
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoCache Event ListenersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonedepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.yesdepending on storage layeryes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsBased on Windows Authentication

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