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DBMS > H2 vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceravendb.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceravendb.net/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperThomas MuellerDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracleHibernating RhinosTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20052003200720101987
Current release2.2.220, July 20231.6.25, March 202414.1, August 20235.4, July 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC#C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoLive Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurableACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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