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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant

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NameNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.04
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAlachisoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Pinecone Systems, IncQdrant
Initial release2005198420192021
Current release5.3.3, April 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
HP Open VMShostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounteryesString, Number, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesnono
APIs and other access methodsIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Python.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
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, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingyes, on a single node
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Key-based authentication
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NCacheOracle RdbPineconeQdrant
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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