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DBMS > BoltDB vs. InfluxDB vs. NCache vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. InfluxDB vs. NCache vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAlachisoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release2013201320051994
Current release2.7.6, April 20245.3.3, April 202418.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoGoC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringspartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counterno
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBInfluxDBNCacheOracle Berkeley DB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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