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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Greenplum vs. NCache vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

greenplum.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

docs.greenplum.org

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Pivotal Software Inc.

Alachisoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2018

2005

2015

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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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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