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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Graphite vs. Manticore Search vs. NCache vs. Postgres-XL

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmanticoresearch.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegraphite.readthedocs.iomanual.manticoresearch.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerChris DavisManticore SoftwareAlachisoft
Initial release20052006201720052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release3.3.3, December 20236.0, February 20235.3.3, April 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangPythonC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanpartial 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.nonoCan index from XMLnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Sockets
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes infoNotificationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual 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 datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"GraphiteManticore SearchNCachePostgres-XL
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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