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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. NCache vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Alachisoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2005

2020

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

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.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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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

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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