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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. NCache vs. RavenDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

ravendb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

ravendb.net/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Alachisoft

Hibernating Rhinos

SAP

Initial release

2003

2005

2010

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

5.4, July 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

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

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