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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. FatDB vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.gridgain.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FatCloud

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2009

2012

2007

1984

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

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

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

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

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via applications

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

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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