DBMS > Axibase vs. Drizzle vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Drizzle vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Alachisoft

Percona

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2013

2008

2005

2015

1993

Current release

15585

7.2.4, September 2012

5.3.3, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

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
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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

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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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