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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. EJDB vs. HarperDB vs. NCache

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.harperdb.iowww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseAxibase CorporationSoftmotionsHarperDBAlachisoft
Initial release19992013201220172005
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155853.1, August 20215.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCNode.jsC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freedynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infoJSON data typespartial 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesyesnonoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusteryes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
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 integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of specific operationsoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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AltibaseAxibaseEJDBHarperDBNCache
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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