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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. NCache

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectAsthon TateAlachisoft
Initial release2016201219792005
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023dBASE 2019, 20195.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess rights for users and rolesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreDatomicdBASENCache
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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