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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Pinecone

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NameNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlachisoftProgress Software CorporationOraclePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2005198420112019
Current release5.3.3, April 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202024.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounteryesoptionalString, Number, Boolean
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesno
Triggersyes infoNotificationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users and groupsAccess rights for users and roles
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NCacheOpenEdgeOracle NoSQLPinecone
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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