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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. NCache vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Alachisoft

SAP, Sybase

Mireo

Initial release

2005

1987

2020

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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