DBMS > Ehcache vs. MaxDB vs. NSDb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. MaxDB vs. NSDb vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

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

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

maxdb.sap.com

nsdb.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2009

1984

2017

1998

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

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)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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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