DBMS > NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alachisoft

SAP

SQream Technologies

Tencent

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

2010

2017

2013

1987

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

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

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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