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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GridDB vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PlanetScale

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orggriddb.netwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantplanetscale.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.griddb.netwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGToshiba CorporationThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014PlanetScale
Initial release20092013200520102020
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.1, August 20222.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaErlangGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID at container levelACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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EhcacheGridDBH2IBM CloudantPlanetScale
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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