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DBMS > Ehcache vs. GBase vs. Graph Engine vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GBase vs. Graph Engine vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.graphengine.iowww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20092004201020052010
Current release3.10.0, March 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, Python.NET and CJavaErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux.NETAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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