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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. Speedb

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.memcached.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.speedb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFatCloudDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlachisoftSpeedb
Initial release20162012200320052020
Current release1.6.27, May 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC#CC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Proprietary protocolIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual 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 operationsnonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreFatDBMemcachedNCacheSpeedb
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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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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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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