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DBMS > atoti vs. Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Ehcache vs. FoundationDB vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

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Nameatoti  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteatoti.iowww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.atoti.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperActiveViamTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFoundationDBGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2009201320142004
Current release3.10.0, March 20226.2.28, November 20202.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)nosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonnoin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event ListenersnoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Linearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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