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DBMS > GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cngeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockIBMAlachisoft
Initial release200420172005
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20192.05.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesnonoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
More information provided by the system vendor
GBaseGeoSpockIBM Db2 Event StoreNCache
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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