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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Ignite vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Ignite vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. Valentina Server

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsApache 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 simplicityTime Series DBMS based on CassandraObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgignite.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opennms.github.io/­newtswww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikivalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.OpenNMS GroupParadigma Software
Initial release20092015201720141999
Current release3.10.0, March 2022Apache Ignite 2.6V0.10.20, January 20185.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetC and C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
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
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luanoyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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