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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. NCache vs. RRDtool vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBAlachisoftTobias OetikerMireoTimescale
Initial release20122005199920202017
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.3.3, April 20241.8.0, 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventspartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterNumeric data onlyyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
in-process shared library
Pipes
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoNotificationsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmyesnoneFixed-grid hypercubesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes, with selectable consistency levelnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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 modeyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)noyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BangdbNCacheRRDtoolSpaceTimeTimescaleDB
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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