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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Hazelcast vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	3.98
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	5.58
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#134	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

hazelcast.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Hazelcast

Oracle

Initial release

2009

2008

2007

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.3.6, November 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Events

yes

Live Events

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 Map

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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