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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. NCache vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.coveo.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Coveo

Alachisoft

Oracle

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2005

2007

2003

2011

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

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.

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

configurable

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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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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