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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. PouchDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

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

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

pouchdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2012

2019

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes, each node contains all data

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)

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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