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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NCache vs. Quasardb vs. Solr

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachequasar.aisolr.apache.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014AlachisoftquasardbApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162010200520092006
Current release2.1, December 20185.3.3, April 20243.14.1, January 20249.5.0, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCErlangC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes infointeger and binaryyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoJava plugins
Triggersnoyesyes infoNotificationsnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingyesSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyeswith Hadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes
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AgensGraphIBM CloudantNCacheQuasardbSolr
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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