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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. eXtremeDB vs. H2

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.mcobject.com

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

McObject

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2009

2001

2005

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

8.2, 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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