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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.datomic.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperCognitectOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SpotifyAlachisoftPercona
Initial release20122002201420052015
Current release1.0.6735, June 20231.1, February 20175.3.3, April 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRJavaScript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationyesyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
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)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentyesnoyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Access rights for users and roles
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DatomicGeodeHeroicNCachePercona Server for MongoDB
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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