DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NCache vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NCache vs. SpaceTime

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2005

2020

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

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.

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, with selectable consistency level

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
» more

Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
» more

Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
» more

Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
» more

Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
» more

Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Working with Azure to Use and Manage Data Lakes
7 March 2024, Simplilearn

Azure Cosmos DB Data Migration tool imports from Azure Table storage | Azure updates
5 May 2015, Microsoft

How to Use C# Azure.Data.Tables SDK with Azure Cosmos DB
9 July 2021, hackernoon.com

How to use Azure Table storage in .Net
14 January 2019, InfoWorld

How to write data to Azure Table Store with an Azure Function
14 April 2017, Experts Exchange

provided by Google News

How to use NCache in ASP.Net Core
25 February 2019, InfoWorld

Custom Response Caching Using NCache in ASP.NET Core
22 April 2020, InfoQ.com

NCache 4.4 Open Sourced
16 January 2015, iProgrammer

provided by Google News

Share this page