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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Hazelcast vs. LMDB vs. NCache vs. Spark SQL

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA widely adopted in-memory data gridA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orghazelcast.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orghazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHazelcastSymasAlachisoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release20142008201120052014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.3.6, November 20230.9.32, January 20245.3.3, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial 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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole-based access controlnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
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Apache PhoenixHazelcastLMDBNCacheSpark SQL
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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