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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.55
Rank#253  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBMAlachisoftPercona
Initial release20122012201720052015
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.05.3.3, April 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRJavaScript
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesActive-active shard replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Access rights for users and roles
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Apache DruidFirebase Realtime DatabaseIBM Db2 Event StoreNCachePercona Server for MongoDB
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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