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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NCache

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orghazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperCNRSHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Alachisoft
Initial release2013200820102005
Current release5.3.6, November 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnopartial 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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Role-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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H2GISHazelcastIBM CloudantNCache
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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