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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hive vs. NCache vs. TimesTen

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgehive.apache.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperSoftmotionsFairCom CorporationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookAlachisoftOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20121979201220051998
Current releaseV3, October 20203.1.3, April 20225.3.3, April 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCANSI C, C++JavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infowhen using SQLnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users, groups and rolesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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EJDBFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEHiveNCacheTimesTen
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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