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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. KairosDB vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

kairosdb.github.io

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Alachisoft

SAP

Initial release

2016

2013

2005

2010

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

simple password-based access control

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

yes

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