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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Memcached vs. TiDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.gbase.cngeospock.comwww.memcached.orgpingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2009200420032016
Current release3.10.0, March 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20191.6.27, May 20248.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptCGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCProprietary protocolGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJavaC#.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
EhcacheGBaseGeoSpockMemcachedTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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