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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. NCache vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. NCache vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA multi-model DBMS and application serverEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachesphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperInterSystemsGoogleAlachisoftSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release19972011200520012014
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.23, February 20215.3.3, April 20243.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoyes infoJava
Triggersyesnoyes infoNotificationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)noAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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InterSystems CachéLevelDBNCacheSphinxSplice Machine
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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