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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak KV vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Alachisoft

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2011

2009

2013

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

24.1, May 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

optional

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

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 DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Document is locked during a transaction

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

simple password-based access control

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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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