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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak KV vs. SQLite

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 StoreDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.98
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#187  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.AlachisoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20092005198420092000
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20165.3.3, April 20247.4.1.1, 20213.2.0, December 20223.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaErlangC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRErlangno
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
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
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yes, using Riak Securityno
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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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