DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.47
Rank	#252	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.03
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Percona

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2005

2015

2008

2018

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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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