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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOracles in-memory data grid solutionAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachensdb.iowww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperIBMAlachisoftOracleSimer Plaha
Initial release20172005201720072018
Current release2.05.3.3, April 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava, ScalaJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnonono
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnoconfigurableAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM Db2 Event StoreNCacheNSDbOracle CoherenceSwayDB
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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