DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachequasar.aitinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlachisoftquasardb
Initial release20122003200520092009
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.6.27, May 20245.3.3, April 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaCC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes infointeger and binaryyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneyesSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoby using LevelDBoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DruidMemcachedNCacheQuasardbTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
» more
Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
» more
Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
» more
Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
» more
Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache DruidMemcachedNCacheQuasardbTinkerGraph
DB-Engines blog posts

Redis extends the lead in the DB-Engines key-value store ranking
3 February 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

New DB-Engines Ranking shows the popularity of database management systems
3 October 2012, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Apache Druid Wins Best Big Data Product in the 2023 BigDATAwire Readers' Choice Awards
26 January 2024, Datanami

'Lucifer' Botnet Turns Up the Heat on Apache Hadoop Servers
21 February 2024, Dark Reading

New DDoS malware Attacking Apache big-data stack, Hadoop, & Druid Servers
26 February 2024, GBHackers

Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases
16 June 2022, The Next Platform

How to connect DataGrip to Apache Druid | by Zisis Flokas
18 October 2021, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

Why DDoS Threat Actors Are Shifting Their Tactics
15 March 2024, Infosecurity Magazine

Intel Continues To Demonstrate The Importance Of Software Optimizations: Clear Linux + Xeon Max Benchmarks
23 October 2023, Phoronix

Why Redis beats Memcached for caching
14 September 2017, InfoWorld

Memcached DDoS: The biggest, baddest denial of service attacker yet
1 March 2018, ZDNet

What are memcached servers, and why are they being used to launch record-setting DDoS attacks?
6 March 2018, GeekWire

provided by Google News

How to use NCache in ASP.Net Core
25 February 2019, InfoWorld

Custom Response Caching Using NCache in ASP.NET Core
22 April 2020, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

Record quasar is most luminous object in the universe
20 February 2024, EarthSky

Quasar Partners with PTC to Empower IoT Customers with High-Performance Data Solutions
11 September 2023, Datanami

QUASAR yacht (Bilgin, 46.8m, 2016)
3 July 2023, Boat International

Hubble Unexpectedly Finds Double Quasar in Distant Universe
5 April 2023, Science@NASA

Quasar Selected by National Renewable Energy Laboratory to Help with Energy System De-risking and Optimization
6 June 2023, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

Unit testing Apache TinkerPop transactions: From TinkerGraph to Amazon Neptune | Amazon Web Services
3 June 2024, AWS Blog

Simple Deployment of a Graph Database: JanusGraph | by Edward Elson Kosasih
12 October 2020, Towards Data Science

Why developers like Apache TinkerPop, an open source framework for graph computing | Amazon Web Services
27 September 2021, AWS Blog

InfiniteGraph Gets Support for Common Graph Database Language and More
21 February 2012, SiliconANGLE News

Introducing Gremlin query hints for Amazon Neptune | AWS Database Blog
26 February 2019, AWS Blog

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here