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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. LevelDB vs. NCache vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.GoogleAlachisoftObjectBox LimitedOracle
Initial release20072011200520172011
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.23, February 20215.3.3, April 202423.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesoptional
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)noneyes, with selectable consistency levelonline/offline synchronization between client and serverElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesnowith Hadoop integration
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yesAccess rights for users and roles
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GridGainLevelDBNCacheObjectBoxOracle NoSQL
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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