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DBMS > H2GIS vs. NCache vs. Prometheus vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. NCache vs. Prometheus vs. Solr

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheprometheus.iosolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsprometheus.io/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperCNRSAlachisoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release2013200520152006
Current release5.3.3, April 20249.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterNumeric data onlyyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2no infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoJava plugins
Triggersyesyes infoNotificationsnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes, with selectable consistency levelyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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 H2Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)noyes
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H2GISNCachePrometheusSolr
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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