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DBMS > Ehcache vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20092005201020092011
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.2.220, July 20233.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangErlangC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnoyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
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
selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
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 possiblenono
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, using Riak Securityno

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