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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. NCache vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2005

2014

2011

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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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