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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Ignite vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

ignite.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2009

2015

2017

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes (replicated cache)

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

ACID

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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