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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GBase vs. InfinityDB vs. Lovefield

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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.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.gbase.cn

boilerbay.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Google

Initial release

2009

2004

2002

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.0

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Using read-only observers

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

none

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)

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

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

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

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