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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. Valentina Server

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityTime Series DBMS based on CassandraObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opennms.github.io/­newtswww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikivalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFirebird FoundationCirconus LLC.OpenNMS GroupParadigma Software
Initial release20092000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720141999
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, January 2024V0.10.20, January 20185.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnono
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 approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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