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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.harperdb.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

HarperDB

SiteWhere

Initial release

2009

2017

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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