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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. SwayDB vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	6.03
Rank	#72	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	1.81
Rank	#152	Overall
	#27	Key-value stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

swaydb.io

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2009

2018

2008

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes, with SQL

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Atomic execution of operations

ACID, read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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DB-Engines blog posts

Data processing speed and reliability: in-memory synchronous replication
9 November 2021, Vladimir Perepelytsya, Tarantool (sponsor)

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