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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. NCache

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.graphengine.iowww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroicwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftCNRSSpotifyAlachisoft
Initial release20132010201320142005
Current release5.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGo.NET and CJavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
.NETLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infobased on H2nono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2yesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityH2GISHeroicNCache
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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