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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Memcached vs. mSQL vs. NCache vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
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Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

ignite.apache.org

www.memcached.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Hughes Technologies

Alachisoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2015

2003

1994

2005

2021

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.6.27, May 2024

4.4, October 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Notifications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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