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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. NCache vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opennms.github.io/newts

postgis.net

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Alachisoft

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Initial release

2013

2005

2014

2005

2009

Current release

15585

5.3.3, April 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

partial

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

yes

integer and binary

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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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

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

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