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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. NCache vs. OpenQM vs. Stardog vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.stardog.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Alachisoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2009

2005

1993

2010

2009

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

3.4-12

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

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.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JCache

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Notifications

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

optional

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)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

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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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