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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. NCache vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAlachisoftTobias OetikerSybase, SAP
Initial release2016200519991993
Current release5.3.3, April 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
in-process shared library
Pipes
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoyes
Triggersyes infoNotificationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.yesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigchainDBNCacheRRDtoolSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
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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