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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. NCache vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. NCache vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPort of SQLite to JavaScriptTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph 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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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachesplicemachine.comsql.js.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAlachisoftSplice MachineAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162005201420122012
Current release5.3.3, April 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JavaScript APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes infoJavanoyes
Triggersyes infoNotificationsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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BigchainDBNCacheSplice MachineSQL.JSTitan
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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