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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata Aster vs. Trino

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgsphinxsearch.comtrino.io
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSphinx Technologies Inc.TeradataTrino Software Foundation
Initial release2009200120052012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.noyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJCacheProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesJavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoR packagesyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.depending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationdepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
More information provided by the system vendor
EhcacheSphinxTeradata AsterTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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