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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.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.gbase.cn

www.memcached.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2009

2004

2003

1998

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.6.25, March 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

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

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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