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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. mSQL vs. NCache vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Spotify

Hughes Technologies

Alachisoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

1994

2005

2020

Current release

4.4, October 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

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

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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

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