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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. NCache vs. Titan vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. NCache vs. Titan vs. Vitess

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanvitess.io
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikivitess.io/­docs
DeveloperHazelcastAlachisoftAurelius, owned by DataStaxThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2008200520122013
Current release5.3.6, November 20235.3.3, April 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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 strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infoEventsyes infoNotificationsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyes, with selectable consistency levelyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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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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