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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Rockset vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Rockset vs. Trafodion

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 InterBaseWidely used in-process key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlrockset.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFirebird FoundationOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleRocksetApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20092000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase199420192014
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, January 202418.1.40, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnodynamic typingyes
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 infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernonenoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
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 resourceACIDACIDnoACID
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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