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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. ObjectBox vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

splicemachine.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.objectbox.io

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

ObjectBox Limited

Splice Machine

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2009

2017

2014

2012

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0 (May 2024)

3.1, March 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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