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DBMS > Interbase vs. Machbase Neo vs. NCache vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Machbase Neo vs. NCache vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
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Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemachbase.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachespark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemachbase.com/­dbmswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoMachbaseAlachisoftApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842013200520142014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019V8.0, August 20235.3.3, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InterbaseMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxNCacheSpark SQLTrafodion
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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