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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Graphite vs. Hazelcast vs. RethinkDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA widely adopted in-memory data gridDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhazelcast.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGChris DavisHazelcastThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2009200620082009
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.3.6, November 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHTTP API
Sockets
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infoEventsClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlyes infousers and table-level permissions

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