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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. NCache

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseGoogleChris DavisAlachisoft
Initial release19992013201520062005
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++GoPythonC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoNumeric data onlypartial 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nononoSQL-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
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
GoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnononono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesnononoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesAtomic single-row operationsnooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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AltibaseBoltDBGoogle Cloud BigtableGraphiteNCache
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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