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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpaceTime vs. TinkerGraph

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 CouchDBSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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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
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.mireo.com/­spacetimetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
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 2014Mireo
Initial release20092005201020202009
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 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnone
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
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)none
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 lockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesno

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