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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. NCache vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2010

2005

2015

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

More information provided by the system vendor

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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