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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.gbase.cn

hbase.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2009

2004

2008

2015

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.4, January 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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