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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Realm vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

realm.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

origodb.com/docs

realm.io/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2009

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

2008

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.4, October 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Source-replica replication

none

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)

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

yes

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