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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.gbase.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FoundationDB

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2009

2013

2004

2021

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

6.2.28, November 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

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)

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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