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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. NCache

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

cachelot.io

www.exasol.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

kairosdb.github.io

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Exasol

Alachisoft

Initial release

2015

2000

2013

2005

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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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