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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Hypertable vs. RavenDB vs. RRDtool

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  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 HadoopOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.23
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Score2.14
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgravendb.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationravendb.net/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHypertable Inc.Hibernating RhinosTobias Oetiker
Initial release2009200920101999
Current release3.10.0, March 20220.9.8.11, March 20165.4, July 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoNumeric data only
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJCacheC++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
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 levelMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)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.none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno

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