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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Ignite vs. JaguarDB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

ignite.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2009

2015

1987

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.3 July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

yes

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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