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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. NCache vs. Oracle

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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.

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

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.38
Rank	#104	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.90
Rank	#198	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1254.82
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Alachisoft

Oracle

Initial release

2018

2005

1980

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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