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System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. NCache vs. QuestDB vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

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NameLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#181  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.69
Rank#115  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score3.47
Rank#95  Overall
#16  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.leanxcale.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachequestdb.ioravendb.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsquestdb.io/­docsravendb.net/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperLeanXcaleAlachisoftQuestDB Technology IncHibernating RhinosTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20152005201420101987
Current release5.3, September 20225.4, July 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoyesyes
Triggersyes infoNotificationsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
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 ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID for single-table writesACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Authorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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