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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. NCache vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splice Machine vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.postgres-xl.org

splicemachine.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Alachisoft

Splice Machine

Yanza

Initial release

2002

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

2015

Current release

1.1, February 2017

5.3.3, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Notifications

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights per client and object definable

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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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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