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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NCache

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orggreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.greenplum.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHPivotal Software Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Alachisoft
Initial release2007200520102005
Current release11.0, June 20247.0.0, September 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnopartial 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.yes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesyesyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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BaseXGreenplumIBM CloudantNCache
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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