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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Firebird Foundation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2009

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2006

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.0.0, January 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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