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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. NCache vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Search engine
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	131.85
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#8	RDF stores

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Elastic

Alachisoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2010

2005

2004

Current release

8.6, January 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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Specific characteristics

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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

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