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

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

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

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.jaguardb.com

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

velocitydb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

DataJaguar, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2009

2015

1987

2011

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.3 July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Linux
OS X

for development

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

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

.Net

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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