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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
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Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Alachisoft

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

Initial release

2005

1984

2007

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 and groups

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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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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