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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. NCache

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

machbase.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

machbase.com/dbms

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Chris Davis

Machbase

Alachisoft

Initial release

2006

2013

2005

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

partial

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

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 language

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based 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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