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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. MarkLogic vs. NCache vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.marklogic.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdocs.marklogic.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperDataStaxMarkLogic Corp.AlachisoftSADAS s.r.l.Teradata
Initial release20112001200520062005
Current release6.8, April 202011.0, December 20225.3.3, April 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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.noyesnonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyes infoSQL92SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoR packages
Triggersyesyesyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingyeshorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyesyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID
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.yesyes, with Range Indexesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Datastax EnterpriseMarkLogicNCacheSadas EngineTeradata Aster
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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