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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. LMDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. NCache vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

machbase.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.lmdb.tech/doc

machbase.com/dbms

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Google

Symas

Machbase

Alachisoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2008

2011

2013

2005

2006

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

V8.0, August 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple password-based access control

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

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

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