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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsCloud 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.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorepouchdb.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorepouchdb.com/­guideswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogleApache Software FoundationSimer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20092017201220182019
Current release3.10.0, March 20227.1.1, June 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptScalaClojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJCacheAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyesnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nono

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