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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2009

1995

2017

2013

1987

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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13 June 2023

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