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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.26
Rank	#69	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	5.68
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	109.95
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2009

2015

2000

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

via file-system locks

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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