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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

Initial release

2009

2017

2013

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

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

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

simple password-based access control

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