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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. NCache vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#204	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Exasol

Alachisoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2000

2005

2022

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

yes

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.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

Sharding

yes

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

Hadoop integration

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

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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

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