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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YTsaurus

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.memcached.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidataytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidataytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlachisoftRocket SoftwareYandex
Initial release20172003200519852023
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.6.27, May 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteroptionalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocolIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID infoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedAccess Control Lists
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IRONdbMemcachedNCacheUniData,UniVerseYTsaurus
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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