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DBMS > Ehcache vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.netpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2009201020112005
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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