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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

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

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

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

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bangdb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

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

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.bangdb.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2017

2012

2016

2005

1993

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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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Market metrics

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

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