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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

splicemachine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Splice Machine

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2009

2005

1984

2014

2011

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.1, March 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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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