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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Embarcadero

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2009

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

10 R1, October 2018

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Interbase Change Views

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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