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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alachisoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2005

2011

2010

2022

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

based on HBase

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

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)

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

More information provided by the system vendor

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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