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DBMS > Ehcache vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Linter vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Linter vs. Speedb

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFull-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 CouchDBRDBMS for high security requirementsAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantlinter.ruwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014relex.ruSpeedb
Initial release20092005201019902020
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
EhcacheH2IBM CloudantLinterSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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