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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. LMDB vs. NCache

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#118	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.lmdb.tech/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Symas

Alachisoft

Initial release

2015

2011

2005

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

5.3, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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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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