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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. NCache vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. NCache vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Vitess

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOracles in-memory data grid solutionScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencevitess.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencevitess.io/­docs
DeveloperElasticAlachisoftOracleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2010200520072013
Current release8.6, January 20235.3.3, April 202414.1, August 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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 indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoNotificationsyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, with selectable consistency levelyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingconfigurableACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
ElasticsearchNCacheOracle CoherenceVitess
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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