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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. NCache vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series 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
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachesiridb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperSpotifyAlachisoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesCesbit
Initial release20132014200520092017
Current release5.3.3, April 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaErlangC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counternoyes infoNumeric data
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnono
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yes, using Riak Securitysimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBHeroicNCacheRiak KVSiriDB
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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