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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. IRONdb vs. OpenQM vs. SurrealDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Circonus LLC.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2009

2017

1993

2022

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.4-12

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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