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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQL.JS vs. Sqrrl

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

sql.js.org

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2005

1984

2012

Current release

0.8, December 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

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

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

JavaScript

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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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