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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. gStore vs. NCache

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Name

Description

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

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

Website

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

en.gstore.cn

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Cloudflare

Alachisoft

Initial release

2018

2016

2005

Current release

1.2, November 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

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

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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

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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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