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DBMS > Ehcache vs. PouchDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Titan vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. PouchDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Titan vs. Transbase

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgpouchdb.comwww.timescale.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.timescale.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGApache Software FoundationTimescaleAurelius, owned by DataStaxTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20092012201720121987
Current release3.10.0, March 20227.1.1, June 20192.15.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyesyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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