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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. NCache vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

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

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

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

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Alachisoft

Rocket Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2005

1985

2019

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

optional

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JCache

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Notifications

yes

U2 Basic

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

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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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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