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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. NCache vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.graphengine.io

hazelcast.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

kairosdb.github.io

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Microsoft

Hazelcast

Alachisoft

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2010

2008

2013

2005

2015

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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