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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. NCache vs. NSDb vs. OpenQM vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

nsdb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alachisoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

1991

2005

2017

1993

2010

Current release

5.7

5.3.3, April 2024

3.4-12

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Java
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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