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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Firebolt vs. GigaSpaces vs. Sphinx

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Search engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.gigaspaces.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFirebolt Analytics Inc.Gigaspaces TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2009202020002001
Current release3.10.0, March 202215.5, September 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCache.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlno

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