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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. NCache

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#118  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.98
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.kinetica.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.kinetica.comwww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperKineticaSymasAlachisoft
Initial release2016201220112005
Current release7.1, August 20210.9.32, January 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++CC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyespartial 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-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
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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 infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate 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 datanoACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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BigchainDBKineticaLMDBNCache
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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