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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. NCache vs. PlanetScale vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheplanetscale.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsplanetscale.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGAlachisoftPlanetScaleSphinx Technologies Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20092005202020012020
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.3.3, April 20243.5.1, February 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJCacheIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes infoproprietary syntaxnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoNotificationsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServeryesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno
More information provided by the system vendor
EhcacheNCachePlanetScaleSphinxSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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