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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

sphinxsearch.com

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2009

2001

2020

1998

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

0.5, April 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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