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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. InfluxDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.23
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewjsqldb.org (offline)www.kinetica.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGKonrad von BackstromKineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20092013201820122003
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.7.5, January 20240.8, December 20187.1, August 20211.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC, C++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonofunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infousing RocksDByesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
More information provided by the system vendor
EhcacheInfluxDBJSqlDbKineticaMemcached
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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