DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. NCache vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. NCache vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. Yanza

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

InterSystems

Alachisoft

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Yanza

Initial release

1997

2005

2020

1987

2015

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

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

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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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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