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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.monetdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

MonetDB BV

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2009

2014

2004

2016

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version 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

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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)

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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