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System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA

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NameITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ittia.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperITTIA L.L.C.MicrosoftAlachisoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP
Initial release20071989200520092010
Current release8.7SQL Server 2022, November 20225.3.3, April 20243.2.0, December 20222.0 SPS07 (AprilĀ 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeFixed schemayesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counternoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRErlangSQLScript, R
Triggersnoyesyes infoNotificationsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyesSharding infono "single point of failure"yes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDatabase file passwordsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yes, using Riak Securityyes
More information provided by the system vendor
ITTIAMicrosoft SQL ServerNCacheRiak KVSAP HANA
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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