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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ITTIA vs. LeanXcale vs. NCache

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Community supported by Red Hat

ITTIA L.L.C.

LeanXcale

Alachisoft

Initial release

2018

2014

2007

2015

2005

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.7

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

Database file passwords

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

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