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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ObjectBox vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.objectbox.io

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

InterSystems

ObjectBox Limited

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2009

1997

2017

2012

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.0 (May 2024)

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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 and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

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

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

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 for users, groups and roles

yes

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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