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DBMS > NCache vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison NCache vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Weaviate

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NameNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.postgres-xl.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlachisoftTranswarpWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current release5.3.3, April 202410 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoNotificationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID infoMVCCno
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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NCachePostgres-XLTranswarp ArgoDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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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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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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