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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. NCache vs. RDF4J vs. Vitess vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rdf4j.org

vitess.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

vitess.io/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Alachisoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2004

2005

2004

2013

2009

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.3.3, April 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID at shard level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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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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