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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk

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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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.gridgain.com

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

siridb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

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

docs.siridb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Cesbit

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2009

2007

1984

2017

2003

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

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)

yes

Multi-source replication

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

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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