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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Alachisoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2005

2011

1994

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

rights management via user accounts

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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