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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. NCache vs. Riak KV vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Kinetica

Alachisoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2005

2009

2022

Current release

7.1, August 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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

yes, using Riak Security

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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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