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System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. NCache vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.leanxcale.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

LeanXcale

Alachisoft

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2005

2017

2007

2011

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

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

yes

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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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