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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. NCache vs. SingleStore

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmachbase.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmachbase.com/­dbmswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperSpotifyMachbaseAlachisoftSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20142013201320052013
Current release2.7.5, January 2024V8.0, August 20235.3, September 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes
Triggersnononoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingyesSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infovolatile and lookup tableyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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HeroicInfluxDBMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxNCacheSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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