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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. NCache vs. Oracle Coherence vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Alachisoft

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2005

2007

2011

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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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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