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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. LokiJS vs. NCache vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Alachisoft

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2005

2007

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JavaScript API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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