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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. NCache vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. STSdb

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreWidely used in-process key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.AlachisoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSTS Soft SC
Initial release2009200519942011
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20165.3.3, April 202418.1.40, May 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counternoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)nono
More information provided by the system vendor
HypertableNCacheOracle Berkeley DBSTSdb
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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