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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak TS

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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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	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.gridgain.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2009

2007

1984

2015

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

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