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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. etcd vs. NCache vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA distributed reliable key-value storeOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#8  Vector DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeallegrograph.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.alachisoft.com/­ncachesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmletcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.AlachisoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2016200420052001
Current release8.0, December 20233.4, August 20195.3.3, April 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counterno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infobulk load of XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnoyesyes, watching key changesyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith FederationyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAllegroGraphetcdNCacheSphinx
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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