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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. NCache

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Embarcadero

Alachisoft

Initial release

1984

2014

2005

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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

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

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