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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alachisoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Initial release

2005

1994

1999

2010

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

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

Numeric data only

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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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