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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NCache vs. Quasardb vs. RavenDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachequasar.airavendb.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterravendb.net/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftAlachisoftquasardbHibernating RhinosSiteWhere
Initial release20152005200920102010
Current releaseV15.3.3, April 20243.14.1, January 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++C#Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes infointeger and binarynoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP 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
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoyes
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyDefault 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 infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchNCacheQuasardbRavenDBSiteWhere
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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