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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. MongoDB vs. NCache vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonMongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraOne of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreSpatial extension of PostgreSQLPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Search engine infointegrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS infoTime Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS infocurrently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score421.65
Rank#5  Overall
#1  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.mongodb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachepostgis.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.mongodb.com/­docs/­manualwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceMongoDB, IncAlachisoftTeradata
Initial release20132009200520052005
Current release6.0.7, June 20235.3.3, April 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono infoMongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)nonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-free infoAlthough schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.schema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatialpartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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.nonoyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL InterfaceSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTGraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesActionscript infounofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure infounofficial driver
ColdFusion infounofficial driver
D infounofficial driver
Dart infounofficial driver
Delphi infounofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy infounofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp infounofficial driver
Lua infounofficial driver
MatLab infounofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell infounofficial driver
Prolog infounofficial driver
Python
R infounofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk infounofficial driver
Swift
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRuser defined functionsR packages
Triggersnoyes infoin MongoDB Atlas onlyyes infoNotificationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.yesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infocan be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency infodefault behaviour
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoMulti-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolationoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptional, enabled by defaultyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BluefloodMongoDBNCachePostGISTeradata Aster
Specific characteristicsMongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosAI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsHundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsMongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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