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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. LevelDB vs. NCache vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/google/leveldb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

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

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Arcade Data

Google

Alachisoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2021

2016

2011

2005

1998

Current release

September 2021

1.23, February 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

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
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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Licensing and pricing models

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