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DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. NCache vs. NSDb vs. Prometheus vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. NCache vs. NSDb vs. Prometheus vs. SwayDB

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NameGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score62.67
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#181  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score8.00
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.alachisoft.com/­ncachensdb.ioprometheus.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsnsdb.io/­Architectureprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogleAlachisoftSimer Plaha
Initial release20102005201720152018
Current release5.3, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava, ScalaGoScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes: int, bigint, decimal, stringNumeric data onlyno
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnonono
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)nono
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Google BigQueryNCacheNSDbPrometheusSwayDB
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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