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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHypertable Inc.IBMBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2009200920172002
Current release3.10.0, March 20220.9.8.11, March 20162.04.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor on file system levelActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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