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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Fauna vs. GreptimeDB vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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

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

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.greptime.com

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Fauna, Inc.

Greptime Inc.

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2009

2014

2022

2015

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single 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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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