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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Google

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2009

2008

2003

2011

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JCache

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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