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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. Trino vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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 simplicityIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.memcached.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachetrino.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlachisoftTrino Software FoundationRocket Software
Initial release2017200320052012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL1985
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.6.27, May 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesoptional
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocolIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes, depending on connected data-sourceyes
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneyesdepending on connected data-sourcenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency leveldepending on connected data-sourceSource-replica replication
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 nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
depending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingdepending on connected data-sourceACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)SQL standard access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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IRONdbMemcachedNCacheTrinoUniData,UniVerse
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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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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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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