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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Kinetica vs. NCache vs. RavenDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Kinetica vs. NCache vs. RavenDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.kinetica.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheravendb.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.kinetica.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsravendb.net/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperMicrosoftKineticaAlachisoftHibernating RhinosSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20102012200520101992
Current release7.1, August 20215.3.3, April 20245.4, July 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC, C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC#
Server operating systems.NETLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counternoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoNotificationsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
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 storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Authorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityKineticaNCacheRavenDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
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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