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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GigaSpaces vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Gigaspaces Technologies

SiteWhere

Initial release

2009

2000

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JCache

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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