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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. HarperDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NCache vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. HarperDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NCache vs. SWC-DB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.alachisoft.com/­ncachegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.heavy.aiwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftHarperDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.AlachisoftAlex Kashirin
Initial release20102017201620052020
Current release3.1, August 20215.10, January 20225.3.3, April 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CNode.jsC++ and CUDAC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systems.NETLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnononoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoRound robinyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHarperDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022NCacheSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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