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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. NCache vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#387  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAlachisoftSphinx Technologies Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release2012200520012020
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.3.3, April 20243.5.1, February 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial 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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.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
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DruidNCacheSphinxSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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