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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. NCache vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

machbase.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

machbase.com/dbms

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Machbase

Alachisoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2013

2005

1994

Current release

0.10, February 2024

V8.0, August 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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