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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NCache vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerarkDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOracles in-memory data grid solutionA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014AlachisoftOracleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20022010200520072016
Current release1.1, February 20175.3.3, April 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nono
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoNotificationsyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeno infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
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GeodeIBM CloudantNCacheOracle CoherenceTerarkDB
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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