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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. etcd vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. NCache

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed reliable key-value storeGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
geode.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
geode.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleAlachisoft
Initial release2012200220172005
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.4, August 20191.1, February 20175.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++GoJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes, watching key changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replicationMulti-source replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeyesoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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BangdbetcdGeodeGoogle Cloud FirestoreNCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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