DBMS > Lovefield vs. NCache vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. NCache vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.searchxml.net/category/products

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Google

Alachisoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2005

2015

2017

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

5.3.3, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

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

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

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

Numeric data

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

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

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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