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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. NCache vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

Alachisoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2005

1992

2023

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

17, July 2015

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

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

HTTP REST

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

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

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