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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. eXtremeDB vs. NCache vs. Solr

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

cassandra.apache.org

www.mcobject.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

McObject

Alachisoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2008

2001

2005

2006

Current release

1703

4.1.3, July 2023

8.2, 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

9.5.0, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Astra DB: Multi-cloud DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra.

Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

partial

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

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

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

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Notifications

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning / sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

yes

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