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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyEmbarcaderoMicrosoftAlachisoft
Initial release20162014198420162005
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20195.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyespartial 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.nonono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageTransact SQLno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesInterbase Change Viewsyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
More information provided by the system vendor
BigchainDBHeroicInterbaseMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseNCache
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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