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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. NCache vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.teradata.com

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.teradata.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Alachisoft

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2022

2005

1984

2018

2011

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted
Linux

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

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

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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