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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Manticore Search vs. NCache vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.20
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

manticoresearch.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

realm.io

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

Manticore Software

Alachisoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2017

2005

2014

Current release

6.0, February 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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