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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. NCache vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Spotify

Alachisoft

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2005

2015

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Windows

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

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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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

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

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