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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Ignite vs. RDF4J vs. YottaDB

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Name

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.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2009

2015

2004

2001

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JCache

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

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

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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