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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Coveo vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. NCache

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.coveo.comwww.graphengine.iohbase.apache.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.coveo.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCoveoMicrosoftApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetAlachisoft
Initial release20182012201020082005
Current release1.1.0, April 20232.3.4, January 20215.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)hosted.NETLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROpartial 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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javano infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)yeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)optimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Apache IoTDBCoveoGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHBaseNCache
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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