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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
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Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#181  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#379  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheorigodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsorigodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.KineticaAlachisoftRobert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2017201220052009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 20215.3, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC#Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luauser defined functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoNotificationsyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingyeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Role based authorizationno
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IRONdbKineticaNCacheOrigoDBRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
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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