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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Memcached

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.ehcache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

Konrad von Backstrom

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2009

2010

2013

2018

2003

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

0.8, December 2018

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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