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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. NCache vs. NSDb vs. SiteWhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comdgraph.iowww.alachisoft.com/­ncachensdb.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdgraph.io/­docswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturesitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectDgraph Labs, Inc.AlachisoftSiteWhere
Initial release20122016200520172010
Current release1.0.7075, December 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesyesShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSynchronous replication via Raftyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users with fine-grained authorization concept
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DatomicDgraphNCacheNSDbSiteWhere
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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