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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. NCache vs. SAP IQ vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

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

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alachisoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2005

1994

2019

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

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

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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