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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. NCache vs. TimesTen vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#210	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

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

typesense.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

typesense.org/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Cloudflare

Alachisoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2018

2005

1998

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

close to SQL 92

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users and groups

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

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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