DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NCache vs. RocksDB 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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.hawkular.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2014

2005

2013

1993

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

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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