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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

nsdb.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

swaydb.simer.au

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

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

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

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Oracle

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2009

2017

2007

2018

1987

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

14.1, August 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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)

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

Using Apache Lucene

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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