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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. NCache vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

IBM

Alachisoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1983

host version

2005

2006

Current release

12.1, October 2016

5.3.3, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL2016 compliant

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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
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

ACID

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

More than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

Certificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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