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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. NCache vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

doc.nuodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Alachisoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2005

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C++

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

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

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

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

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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