DBMS > Faircom DB vs. NCache vs. Sadas Engine vs. ScyllaDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. NCache vs. Sadas Engine vs. ScyllaDB vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Key-value store

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Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sadasengine.com

www.scylladb.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.scylladb.com

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Alachisoft

SADAS s.r.l.

ScyllaDB

Splice Machine

Initial release

1979

2005

2006

2015

2014

Current release

V12, November 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

8.0

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes, Lua

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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