DBMS > Ehcache vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.memcached.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2009

2003

2013

2020

1999

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.6.25, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

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

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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