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NCache System Properties

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Name

Description

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Alachisoft

Initial release

2005

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

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

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.

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

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

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Recent citations in the news

NCache Distributed Cache for .NET Gets Open Sourced
28 January 2015, Visual Studio Magazine

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