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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. NCache vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rethinkdb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Alachisoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2005

2009

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Atomic single-document operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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