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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. NCache vs. Newts vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opennms.github.io/newts

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Spotify

Alachisoft

OpenNMS Group

Tencent

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2005

2014

2013

2019

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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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