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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. NCache vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sequoiadb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alachisoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2005

2013

2000

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

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.

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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)

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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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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