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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. Hive vs. PostGIS

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orghive.apache.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20092000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20122005
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, January 20243.1.3, April 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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