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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. NCache vs. SwayDB vs. VoltDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

machbase.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

swaydb.simer.au

www.voltdb.com

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

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.voltdb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Machbase

Alachisoft

Simer Plaha

VoltDB Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2005

2018

2010

2019

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

11.3, April 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Scala

Java, C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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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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