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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Kingbase vs. NCache vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerarkDB

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOracles in-memory data grid solutionA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.AlachisoftOracleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20131999200520072016
Current release2.7.6, April 2024V8.0, August 20215.3.3, April 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and JavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesno
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 indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoNotificationsyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesyes, with selectable consistency levelyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine 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
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InfluxDBKingbaseNCacheOracle CoherenceTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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