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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. NCache vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. NCache vs. Prometheus

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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 BorlandOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheprometheus.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyEmbarcaderoAlachisoft
Initial release20162014198420052015
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20195.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnoyesyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesInterbase Change Viewsyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
More information provided by the system vendor
BigchainDBHeroicInterbaseNCachePrometheus
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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