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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. HugeGraph vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
rethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGBaiduThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20092018200920012011
Current release3.10.0, March 20220.92.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaGroovy
Java
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event ListenersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDAtomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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