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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. NSDb vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#30	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#185	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

nsdb.io

vitess.io

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Alachisoft

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2005

2017

2013

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

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

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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