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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. NCache vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/google/leveldb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Spotify

Google

Alachisoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2011

2005

2015

Current release

1.23, February 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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