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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgmaxdb.sap.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFirebird FoundationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20092000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19842012
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, January 20247.9.10.12, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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