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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Fauna vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
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
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storefauna.comwww.memcached.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.fauna.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaFauna, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlachisoftRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20162014200320052009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release1.6.25, March 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaCC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes
Triggersnononoyes infoNotificationsyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneyeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Role based authorization
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBMemcachedNCacheOrigoDB
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache 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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