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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NCache vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NCache vs. NuoDB

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroiclearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperHazelcastSpotifyMicrosoftAlachisoftDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20082014201520052013
Current release5.3.6, November 2023V15.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRJava, SQL
Triggersyes infoEventsnonoyes infoNotificationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
More information provided by the system vendor
HazelcastHeroicMicrosoft Azure AI SearchNCacheNuoDB
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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