DBMS > Ehcache vs. NCache vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. NCache vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

sphinxsearch.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Alachisoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2009

2005

2001

2000

2020

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

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#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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