DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Hypertable vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Hypertable vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.18
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Hypertable Inc.

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2005

2009

2005

1984

2000

Current release

14, December 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Thrift

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
» more

Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
» more

Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
» more

Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
» more

Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
» more

Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.