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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Ehcache vs. Hazelcast vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Rank	#67	Overall
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Website

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Hazelcast

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

2009

2008

2018

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JCache

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate 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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

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