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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. NCache vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

objectbox.io

www.postgres-xl.org

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

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Alachisoft

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

1984

2005

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.3, September 2022

10 R1, October 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users and groups

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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