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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. Oracle Coherence vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

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NameNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreOracles in-memory data grid solutionKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph 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
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAlachisoftOracleSTS Soft SCOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20052007201119982009
Current release5.3.3, April 202414.1, August 20234.0.8, September 201511 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJavaC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C#
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnonoPL/SQLno
Triggersyes infoNotificationsyes infoLive Eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingconfigurablenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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NCacheOracle CoherenceSTSdbTimesTenTinkerGraph
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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