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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. MaxDB vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgmaxdb.sap.compouchdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2009198420122018
Current release3.10.0, March 20227.9.10.12, February 20247.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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