DBMS > mSQL vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Alachisoft

Robert Friberg et al

SAP

formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

1994

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

1992

2005

Current release

4.4, October 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

R packages

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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)

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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