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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Google BigQuery vs. Newts vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	5.98
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Website

www.ehcache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

opennms.github.io/newts

sphinxsearch.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

OpenNMS Group

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2009

2010

2014

2001

2003

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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