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System Properties Comparison MongoDB vs. NCache vs. PlanetScale vs. searchxml vs. TimesTen

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NameMongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOne of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Search engine infointegrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS infoTime Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS infocurrently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score421.65
Rank#5  Overall
#1  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.mongodb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheplanetscale.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.mongodb.com/­docs/­manualwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsplanetscale.com/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperMongoDB, IncAlachisoftPlanetScaleinformationpartners gmbhOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20092005202020151998
Current release6.0.7, June 20235.3.3, April 20241.011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno infoMongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)noyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoAlthough schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.schema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatialpartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLRead-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL InterfaceSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesActionscript infounofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure infounofficial driver
ColdFusion infounofficial driver
D infounofficial driver
Dart infounofficial driver
Delphi infounofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy infounofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp infounofficial driver
Lua infounofficial driver
MatLab infounofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell infounofficial driver
Prolog infounofficial driver
Python
R infounofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk infounofficial driver
Swift
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes infoproprietary syntaxyes infoon the application serverPL/SQL
Triggersyes infoin MongoDB Atlas onlyyes infoNotificationsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.yesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infocan be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency infodefault behaviour
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataMulti-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolationoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID at shard levelmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptional, enabled by defaultyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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MongoDBNCachePlanetScalesearchxmlTimesTen
Specific characteristicsMongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosAI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsHundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsMongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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