DBMS > Ehcache vs. MySQL vs. Sqrrl vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. MySQL vs. Sqrrl vs. YottaDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Widely used open source RDBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.mysql.com

sqrrl.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2009

1995

2012

2001

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

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

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

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

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

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

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

optimistic locking

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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