DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. NCache vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Raima Database Manager

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. NCache vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Raima Database Manager

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Name

Description

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Vector DBMS

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Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

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

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

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

raima.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

docs.raima.com

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Alachisoft

Amazon Web Services

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Raima Inc.

Initial release

2012

2005

2021

1984

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Notifications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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News

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29 February 2024

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v15, a Powerful Embedded Time Series Database
10 June 2021

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v14.2, a Powerful IoT Edge Embedded Database
8 October 2020

Raima Joins BlackBerry QNX Channel Partner Program to Deliver Safety-Critical and Secure Software Solutions
1 October 2020

Raima Expands Their Reseller Network in Asia
19 May 2020

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