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DBMS > Hive vs. IRONdb vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IRONdb vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbrdf4j.org
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCirconus LLC.AlachisoftPerconaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20122017200520152004
Current release3.1.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 20185.3.3, April 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramspartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
proprietary protocol using JSONJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in Luano infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRJavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Access rights for users and rolesno
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HiveIRONdbNCachePercona Server for MongoDBRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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