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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichive.apache.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperSpotifyApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookAlachisoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20132014201220051984
Current release3.1.3, April 20225.3.3, April 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnononoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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BoltDBHeroicHiveNCacheOracle Rdb
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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