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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. NCache vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Amazon

Google

Alachisoft

TempoIQ

Initial release

2015

2008

2005

2012

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Notifications

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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

simple authentication-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

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