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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. NCache vs. Riak KV vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

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

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Google

Alachisoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Teradata

Initial release

2008

2005

2009

1984

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

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

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

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

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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.

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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