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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Elasticsearch vs. GeoSpock vs. NCache

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgeospock.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticGeoSpockAlachisoft
Initial release199720102005
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20238.6, January 20232.0, September 20195.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, JavascriptC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedtemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Derby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBElasticsearchGeoSpockNCache
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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