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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. NCache vs. Sadas Engine vs. ToroDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/torodb/server

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Alachisoft

SADAS s.r.l.

8Kdata

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2014

2005

2006

2016

2018

Current release

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

5.3.3, April 2024

8.0

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication

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

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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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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