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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opennms.github.io/newts

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Alachisoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

1999

2005

2014

2005

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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