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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Geode vs. HyperSQL vs. STSdb

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orggeode.apache.orghsqldb.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgeode.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.STS Soft SC
Initial release2009200220012011
Current release3.10.0, March 20221.1, February 20172.7.2, June 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava, SQLno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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