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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	6.45
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	138.98
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Elastic

Initial release

2009

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Elastic License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

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