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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. Kingbase vs. RavenDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kingbase.com.cnravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlkairosdb.github.ioravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGThomas MuellerBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Hibernating Rhinos
Initial release20092005201319992010
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.2.220, July 20231.2.2, November 2018V8.0, August 20215.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC and JavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
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 databaseselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
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 resourceACIDnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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