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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. NebulaGraph vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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

Score	2.12
Rank	#125	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Alachisoft

Vesoft Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2005

2019

1980

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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NebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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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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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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