DBMS > Ehcache vs. GridGain vs. RavenDB vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GridGain vs. RavenDB vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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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 Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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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	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

ravendb.net/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2009

2007

2010

2000

2020

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GridGain 8.5.1

5.4, July 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

none

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate 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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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