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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Hypertable vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2009

2005

1984

2000

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

partial

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

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

C++ API
Thrift

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

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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

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Market metrics

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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

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