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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. NCache vs. PieCloudDB vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.openpie.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Alachisoft

OpenPie

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2005

1998

2023

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

2.1, January 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

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

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Multi-source replication
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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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