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DBMS > GBase vs. Ignite vs. KeyDB vs. NCache vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Ignite vs. KeyDB vs. NCache vs. SiteWhere

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.alachisoft.com/­ncachegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.keydb.devwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.AlachisoftSiteWhere
Initial release20042015201920052010
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.65.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexespartial 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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Luano infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingyesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple password-based access control and ACLAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users with fine-grained authorization concept
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GBaseIgniteKeyDBNCacheSiteWhere
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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