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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. NCache vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. NCache vs. SiteWhere

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaAlachisoftSiteWhere
Initial release2010201220052010
Current release7.1, August 20215.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC, C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users with fine-grained authorization concept
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IBM CloudantKineticaNCacheSiteWhere
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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