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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. Speedb vs. Yaacomo

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.speedb.ioyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlachisoftSpeedbQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132003200520202009
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.6.27, May 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counternoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
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
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneyeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency levelyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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 datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingyesACID
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InfluxDBMemcachedNCacheSpeedbYaacomo
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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