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System Properties Comparison NCache vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool vs. STSdb

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NameNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverrethinkdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTrethinkdb.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAlachisoftPerconaThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Tobias OetikerSTS Soft SC
Initial release20052008200919992011
Current release5.3.3, April 20248.0.36-28, 20242.4.1, August 20201.8.0, 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC and C++C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryNumeric data onlyyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesnono
Triggersyes infoNotificationsyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDAtomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono
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NCachePercona Server for MySQLRethinkDBRRDtoolSTSdb
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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