DBMS > Ehcache vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LeanXcale vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LeanXcale vs. Newts

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.gridgain.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.leanxcale.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

LeanXcale

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2009

2007

2016

2015

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
Java
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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