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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NCache vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NCache vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMicrosoftAlachisoftSiteWhereTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2015200520101987
Current releaseV15.3.3, April 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchNCacheSiteWhereTransbase
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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