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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. jBASE vs. NCache

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Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alachisoft

Initial release

2013

1991

2005

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.7

5.3, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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