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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. IRONdb vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Circonus LLC.AlachisoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release2002201720051984
Current release1.1, February 2017V0.10.20, January 20185.3.3, April 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramspartial 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in Luano infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablenoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
More information provided by the system vendor
GeodeIRONdbNCacheOracle Rdb
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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