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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache vs. SiriDB

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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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Cesbit

Initial release

2016

2005

2017

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

Numeric data

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

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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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