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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Ehcache vs. GridGain

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Name

Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Primary database model

Key-value store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.ehcache.org

www.gridgain.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Initial release

2023

2009

2007

Current release

1.0, March 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial, open source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JCache

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Password-based authentication

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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