DBMS > NCache vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison NCache vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

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

www.splunk.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2005

2013

1992

2003

2012

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

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

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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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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